Jiang says Chinese ships in Australian waters reflect a broader Chinese push to extract resources as fast as possible and dump goods globally out of desperation and anxiety.
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Resource extraction
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Jiang argues that so-called rare earth scarcity is misleading because many countries have the minerals but avoid large-scale extraction due to its long-term environmental destruction, whereas China accepts those costs because it behaves like a colony or plantation economy oriented toward immediate output rather than long-term stewardship.
He argues that in the 1960s and 1970s the United States installed South American dictators who bankrupted their regimes while local elites transferred resources northward to America.
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"I mean, China is just in a situation where it wants to extract as much resources as possible, as quickly as possible. That's why..."
"uh because of this technological production in fact listen where Earth mineral minerals it's a misnomer because most country actually has access to rare..."
"So for the past 10 years, China has been developing a very strong relationship with South America. So before, in the 60s and 70s,..."
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