As an artist, I like having the ability to tell people they cannot host my commercial works, cannot claim my own writing or characters for themselves, cannot reproduce them for profit, need my permission to sell them.
I think copyright abuse is rampant and favors corporate entities far too much in most countries, but I think the solution is reform not destruction of the system.
By that logic, all US Citizens are victims of ongoing genocide.
Genocides are a real thing that are really happening to people across the world, you can't just make it mean something less than it is in good conscience.
I feel like Cities Skylines wasted potential with their Sims-like sales model of a poorly cooked base game and tens of DLC. Plus, the game is tutorial railroaded so bad like omg just let me try.
I did see a youtuber build a biking and walkable community connected by Subway, though, which was cool.
A bit off topic about who is supposed to handle it, but tbh I don't expect trade relations can get any worse with China even as a result of them banning exports of these. Certainly isn't going to get better.
LMAO, China has been playing games with currency values and undercutting electronics manufacturers for decades.
FYI we don’t do this btw
In 1979, President Carter proposed a Trade Agreement that changed China to favored trader status with much lower tariffs across the board, and in return China agreed to a cap on textile output so as not to flood the market with cheaper goods than the USA was producing.
The 1980s saw even more favorable deals in exchange for similar restrictions as Reagan was eager to work with China.
Trade broke down in the 1990s over China committing crimes against their own people, broadcasted live across the entire world.
In 2000 President Clinton helped China enter the WTO to renew trade again.
And in return they spent the last 24 years shitting the bed, doing everything in their power to mess with any market they can, like sharks drawn to blood.
Previously, Beijing already started enforcing a ban on exports of REE and related technology exports.
The new regulations include a strict database on REEs outlining when and where they were extracted all the way to where they're exported. The laws stipulate that "no organization or person may encroach on or destroy rare-earth resources."
What is best for China is peaceful coexistence and small concessions to incentivize trade and development of the world.
What China is doing is maliciously taking everything they can get their hands on until every bridge is burned, and by the looks of it they're ramping up military production to cross the river and keep taking.
Exactly the sort of shortsighted belligerent actions you would expect from a dictatorship.
Sales aren't everything. China has ~44M Metric Tons of REE reserves, Vietnam 22M, Russia 21M, Brazil 21M, India 6.9M, Australia 4.2M, USA 2.4M, Greenland 1.5M.
However, specific metals out of the 17 have wildly different graphs, such as Palladium commonly used in military armored plating being produced mostly in Russia and South Africa. USA produces many times over as much Palladium as China reports.
If China's domestic use concerns are actually for military use then that's troublesome because the metals they have are more useful for automation and electronics than anything else.
This effectively makes all minerals the state's property and prevents commerce with other nations who specialize in heavy machinery or electronics including: USA, UK, EU, SK, and Japan.
As an artist, I like having the ability to tell people they cannot host my commercial works, cannot claim my own writing or characters for themselves, cannot reproduce them for profit, need my permission to sell them.
I think copyright abuse is rampant and favors corporate entities far too much in most countries, but I think the solution is reform not destruction of the system.