Oct. 8, 2025 - Epoch Times
01:16
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| It's a shocking uh fact uh that we've 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 for our technology, for our defense, uh for automotive, uh essentially uh everything we need uh for energy security and and national security and economic security. | |
| Uh China's been at this uh over a period of decades, uh, and they're not only in many cases controlling uh 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 uh during uh some uh trade wars, if you will, uh you know, they withheld uh shipping uh a certain type of magnet uh to all Western countries, not just the United States. | |
| And we were we were facing uh within weeks of every auto plant in the world being shut down. | |
| I think this is a wake-up call uh for everybody in the West to say we've got to have secure ply chains. | |
| President Trump understands that uh 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. | |
| Uh that includes us getting back in the mining game uh in this country. |
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