2024-08-17
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As Sino-US relations deteriorate sharply, the United States has begun to accelerate its "decoupling" from China. According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, the Pentagon has made a final decision and announced that from now on, the United States will ban the import of rare metal tantalum and alloys from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, on the grounds that reducing dependence on imports from the above countries is related to national security issues.
Tantalum has high corrosion resistance and is used in medical applications to make thin wires for repairing damaged tissues. In the military, it is often used to make rectifiers for missiles and tantalum capacitors. However, it should be emphasized that tantalum is not a rare earth, but a rare metal.
In fact, the United States had already proposed this ban as early as 2020, but now it has officially confirmed the content of the ban in the form of a document. Combined with the United States' actions towards China in recent times, the United States has no intention of repairing Sino-US relations, and even seems to be ready to confront China.
In addition, combined with the revelations of the US media and Putin's statement, Pelosi's escape to Taiwan is essentially a conspiracy carefully planned by the US government, the purpose of which is to force China to "reunify by force" and the US can disrupt China's development process through this proxy war. The US chose to take risks now mainly because it has become less and less confident in its own strength.