Victor Davis Hanson on China Restricting Sale of Rare-Earth Minerals: America Can Be Self-Sufficient, Plentiful Rare Earth Minerals in California

RUSH EXCERPT:

HANSON: “It’s very important and we can do it very easily, Laura, it was all done by design not by accident or fate. We have plentiful rare-earth materials in California, Wyoming, we just opened a mine in Montana. They produce twice the nuclear energy that China does. We have three times the production of oil, three times or four times the production of gas. They brag about their coal plants. We have twice the coal reserves that China does and we’re the leading producer as I said of nuclear energy. They are dependent on everything and we are if you wanted to no, sir. We are autonomous. We can be self-sufficient and all of our natural resources. We don’t need to have 300,000 Chinese students here in the United States a lot of them deprive opportunities from Americans of the heartland. There is no reason we have to have enormous investment in China just a choice we played more investor class found it profitable to build up China and the result is we are not self-sufficient and we are vulnerable. And we can easily ventricle at this phi it if we made some changes at the very top Victor trillion dollars military.”