Oct. 8, 2025 - Epoch Times
01:16
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| It's a shocking fact that we've allowed ourselves to get in a position where China has got a stranglehold on all of these essential minerals that are needed for our technology, for our defense, for automotive, essentially everything we need for energy security and national security and economic security. | |
| China's been at this over a period of decades, and they're not only in many cases controlling the mining around the world with their investments as part of their belt and road, but they bring all those materials back to China and do the processing there and then sell them to the world. | |
| And so, and again, like last spring when we were going tit for dat during some trade wars, if you will, you know, they withheld shipping a certain type of magnet to all Western countries, not just the United States. | |
| And we were facing within weeks of every auto plant in the world being shut down. | |
| I think this is a wake-up call for everybody in the West to say we've got to have secure ply chains. | |
| President Trump understands that. | |
| As part of the national energy emergency that he's created, we're using every authority we have to try to bring those supply chains back home. | |
| That includes us getting back in the mining game in this country. |
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