"} 99:{"type":"p","text":"Mr. Bass: "} 9a:{"type":"p","text":"The CCP has some key points of leverage. You mentioned rare earth metals, as they recently demonstrated rare earth magnets and the magnets that enable the EV engines to run. So they withheld those in the most recent trade kerfuffle. And they also did not report a lot; they did not report well on the lasers that are used to generate fiber optic signals, which are almost 100% made in China. And they’re withholding those from many of the folks that use those fiber optic lasers and things related to communications and computing. "} 9b:{"type":"p","text":"So you’ve got some real single points of failure there. That’s not rocket science. It’s just us needing to create our own domestic capacity once again. And that requires the president to issue some orders. And you think there’s got to be some sort of Manhattan Project that we can engage in to fix these wrongs, to balance these imbalances. I think another one is synthetic graphite; synthetic graphite is in every single EV battery. We mine the raw materials in Louisiana, and we ship it all to China, and they handle 100% of the finishing. So things go from synthetic graphite to antibiotics to, you know, fiber optic lasers and rare earth magnets. So you feel like they’ve got a stranglehold on us. "} 9c:{"type":"p","text":"With them, they import 13 and a half million barrels of crude oil every single day. They import nine BCF of LNG every single day. They import 40% of their food every single day, and they need access to the U.S. dollar system. That is a single point of failure on their part. They have a closed capital account. They don’t have the ability to purchase things around the world in yuan or RMB because no one accepts a currency they don’t trust or that doesn’t trade. They need convertibility into something else,

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