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Keeping the tractor running after nuclear war
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<blockquote data-quote="Scribus" data-source="post: 5977886" data-attributes="member: 117192"><p>On occasions it occurs to me that there may already been some sort of leverage applied by exploiting the vulnerability of the west to the great 'digital revolution', and if one country in particular needs pointing to it is China.</p><p></p><p>China is a communist totalitarian state, there is only one party and dissent is simply not tolerated. Great wars have been fought within living memory to contain and defeat such political systems, yet short of the wholesale destruction of human life China is pretty much going about its business as Nazi Germany did. Why then, is it so roundly applauded by western governments and commerce?</p><p></p><p>Not only is it applauded but it is actually encouraged, the great push for electric and autonomous vehicles is the most glaring example of this. China has a vice like grip on the lithium and cobalt markets, one estimate notes that it 'controls' 80% of the former through financial interests in the mining companies as well as direct ownership of the resources.</p><p></p><p>What western government would entertain the idea of switching to a transport system that is almost totally reliant upon one communist country if it had not already been hopelessly compromised?</p><p></p><p>Scrape away the gloss and BS surrounding battery cars and you will find a somewhat different picture of geopolitical power and greed that has absolutely nothing to do with saving the planet, why is this being allowed to happen?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scribus, post: 5977886, member: 117192"] On occasions it occurs to me that there may already been some sort of leverage applied by exploiting the vulnerability of the west to the great 'digital revolution', and if one country in particular needs pointing to it is China. China is a communist totalitarian state, there is only one party and dissent is simply not tolerated. Great wars have been fought within living memory to contain and defeat such political systems, yet short of the wholesale destruction of human life China is pretty much going about its business as Nazi Germany did. Why then, is it so roundly applauded by western governments and commerce? Not only is it applauded but it is actually encouraged, the great push for electric and autonomous vehicles is the most glaring example of this. China has a vice like grip on the lithium and cobalt markets, one estimate notes that it 'controls' 80% of the former through financial interests in the mining companies as well as direct ownership of the resources. What western government would entertain the idea of switching to a transport system that is almost totally reliant upon one communist country if it had not already been hopelessly compromised? Scrape away the gloss and BS surrounding battery cars and you will find a somewhat different picture of geopolitical power and greed that has absolutely nothing to do with saving the planet, why is this being allowed to happen? [/QUOTE]
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