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The US has hit China where it hurts by going after its telecom champion Huawei, but Beijing's control of the global supply of rare earths used in smartphones and electric cars gives it a powerful weapon in their escalating tech war.
A seemingly routine visit by President Xi Jinping to a Chinese rare earths company this week is being widely read as an obvious threat that Beijing is standing ready for action.
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However, analysts say China appears apprehensive to target the minerals just yet, possibly fearful of shooting itself in the foot by hastening a global search for alternative supplies of the commodities.
Better buy your new devices now...
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(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:21AM
This.
With this lack of definition doing the rounds, everything can be termed a tool of ‘war’ and therefore ‘weaponised’. Negating the useful meaning of the word.
For example we could ‘weaponise’ efficient algorithms in the war to clean up a product codebase.
Or we could ‘weaponise’ love and compassion in the quest for peace.
We could even ‘weaponise’ tantric breathing techniques in the battle for the ultimate transcendent orgasm.
Some people have to have everything around them be some sort of adversarial conquest.