China informed South Korea that it cannot export any “dual use” items containing rate earth minerals from China. This is China now playing the US game of stopping third countries from exporting goods containing raw materials/components that were sourced from it.

This is tightening the grip around the throat of US industry, including the Military Industrial Complex. It will of course also hit South Korean exports. China seems more and more bent on an actual decoupling from the US, taking the opportunity that Trump has provided.

The piece below from Hua Bin details the benefits of such a decoupling for China and sarcastically with respect to a US which would be in a much worse position after a decoupling with much of the elite’s “reshoring” and “cheating” discourses to be the BS that they are. A controlled decoupling is always better for China’s strategy of slow US decline, but moving a little faster may be better in “educating” Trump on reality.