Mineral Monopoly: China’s Control over Gallium Is a National Security Threat
features.csis.org
China has secured a virtual monopoly over gallium, a critical mineral used to produce microchips in advanced military technologies. Failing to de-risk gallium supply chains could have serious security and economic consequences for the United States and its allies.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2274036

Plays stupid games, win stupid prizes as the saying goes.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    10 months ago

    I just find it funny that someone on some dumbass lib instance came in here and downvoted the thread and everyone in it.

    Dude's mad at reality and taking it out on a tiny Internet forum. Hilarious. Your team is losing lib and there's nothing you can do about it

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I expect that libs are going to be getting increasingly unhinged as they see their whole world unravel. We're still in the denial stages right now where they can still ignore the facts, but it's getting harder and harder to do their mental gymnastics to pretend that everything's going great for their ideology.

    • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Building on that but on a more serious front, what third world countries in the world have more exploitable galium production that could get democratically expropriated by the international community?

      • Buchenstr@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        None so far, except ukraine has found some gallium ores. But those minerals lie in the Donetsk region, so it can't be exploited. And ukraine will never get Donetsk so right now the west is completely starved of this resource.