Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.

Shipments of the magnets, essential for assembling everything from cars and drones to robots and missiles, have been halted at many Chinese ports while the Chinese government drafts a new regulatory system. Once in place, the new system could permanently prevent supplies from reaching certain companies, including American military contractors.

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    • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      By your source, they resisted 12 years (mostly due to western aid) and then gave-up.

      “By the early 1950s, the Soviet forces had eradicated most of the Forest Brother resistance. Intelligence gathered by the Soviet spies in the West and MGB infiltrators within the resistance movement, in combination with large-scale Soviet operations in 1952, managed to end the campaigns against them. Many of the remaining Forest Brothers laid down their weapons when offered an amnesty by the Soviet authorities…”

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 minutes ago

        12 years with 1940s tech. With 2025 tech that’s collapse of Russia sort of resistance. The Baltics would 100% dirty bomb Moscow if it ever came to it.

        Ruzkies and the world is very different now especially since Russian soft power is so incredibly low compared to ww2. Literally nobody likes Russia and nobody can justify existence under their failing system and economy. Every Baltics state has significantly higher GDP per capita than Russia with basically infinite natural resources - there’s no way to even spin Russian occupation.

        You are clearly the troll here if you can’t understand this.