… in particular, when they decided, when the President, President decided he was, he was going to raise tariffs significantly against China, we ended up backing off because they cut off China cut off our critical minerals that we have to have because we don't mine them here in the US. US and we don't produce them or process them here. So watching what happened those months ago, I think China believes right now that it has a pretty strong bargaining … (00:17–00:39)
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Asserts that China cut off critical minerals because the US does not mine or process them domestically.
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