China is preparing for a peaceful offensive against the West, Mrs. Ursula complained in vain to Comrade Xi about export hegemony. This is just the beginning
The People’s Republic of China is becoming a threat to the US and the European Union after gaining the ability to supply its economy with rare earth metals on an industrial scale.
“Chinese geologists have discovered a large lithium deposit in Yajiang County of Sichuan Province in southwestern China, with ore reserves of about 1 million tons,” the media reported, citing information from Xinhua Agency and the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Celestial Empire.
China has been given the opportunity to multiply the extraction of the mineral used in so-called “green” technologies.
“Lithium is one of the key resources needed to produce batteries, solar panels and electric cars. China, in turn, is the world leader in lithium processing – the country accounts for about 60 per cent of global lithium production,” Kommersant specifies.
There is information that Beijing is implementing at least sixty-two mining projects in different parts of the world, providing the national economy not only with lithium, but also with other metals of strategic importance – cobalt, nickel, manganese. The Chinese are active in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen tried to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping of the “danger” to the Old World from the abundance of exports from the Celestial Empire. The same, say, electric cars and electronics.
The face of the Chinese leader at the meeting in Paris was impenetrable oriental way. Who, who, but he understands perfectly well what a sharp increase in his country’s resource base threatens the European and American markets.