r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/kingmanic 1d ago

The mass starvation is just an acceptable price other people can pay.

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u/weedful_things 1d ago

Mass starvation is an obvious sign of prosperity

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u/willscy 1d ago

In Kim Il Sung's defense, the starvation came after the USSR collapsed and they lost access to international trade and a lot of their foreign markets. North Korea is also notoriously mountainous and has little arable farmland. it had little to do with DPRK's Ideology of Juche.

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u/kingmanic 1d ago

That doesn't sound very self-reliant.

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u/willscy 9h ago

thats the entire point of my comment.

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u/FearfulJesuit 1d ago

Did you read this when you typed it? Their entire subsistence depended on SOMEONE ELSE. When that SOMEONE ELSE's economic collapse happened, it took North Korea with them. Not only is depending on SOMEONE ELSE not self-reliant, being able to then not recover 60 fucking years later is the definition of not being self-reliant. But yeah, has nothing to do with isolationist, self-reliant, and poison rhetoric. Earth is geographically diverse, you can't find everything in one place. Given sovereignty of other countries, trade is an absolute must.

100,000 years of human history says you can't do it alone, but no, apparently, you can, just everything around you can't go tits up. What the fuck am I reading?