From what I've read from Internet about the rare earth market, same trick has worked successfully many times in real lives. Historically western competitors were wiped out by their Chinese counterparts in global competition on a couple of pricing rallies. As a consequence, they lost almost all...
Rare earth is not rare. However only China possesses full technology to process and refine the ores, covering the entire upstream and downstream production, up to end products phase. That's why China is also the biggest rare earth importer in the world.
I don't think China will cut the supply...
These launches and very short space flights with repeated implementation of known space technology explains exactly why the American Empire is falling. They'd rather burn the money in such way but fund the country's very sick health care and student loan systems.
Russia has sold blueprint of D-30KP-2 engine to China. Chengdu Engine Group is now responsible on manufacturing and further improving this engine. H-6K is also using the same engine. It's been named as WS-18 in China. So there shouldn't be problems for export.
That's just what China wants the US to do and therefore the future Euro-Asia continent trade union can be made feasible.
If the US chooses to do so, by that time they should have lost their long reach to most developing countries along the key trade routes (think about Iran) because the US...
That's why they launched crazy amount of satellites into orbits in recent years. For example China has conducted 47 launches this year.
That also explains why they developed WZ-8 hypersonic drone.
Hahaha I'd like to see how they can close the range gap when coping with the 4000km+ DF-26 and up to 8000km DF-27. They also need to work out a way to defend China's orbit launched gliding projectiles which can hit any spots globally in less than 1 hour.
They are clearly losing this arms race...
The India side doesn't even have photos. It is pretty obvious the battle field was finally cleared by PLA and Indian army had a total failure even when firearms were not used.
No matter what the Americans think, China is clearly now expanding nuclear arsenals, not only in warhead count, but also in development of new warhead carriers with disruptive technologies, in crazily fast paces. That will ensure an effective deterrence to US interference when PLA starts Taiwan...