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8: China's Economic Woes and Rare Earth Export Controls Raise Global Alarms. Elaine Dezenski discusses how the US Treasury Secretary remarked that China's worrying economic fundamentals—including high debt and youth unemployment—are leading Beijing to use ta

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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China's Economic Woes and Rare Earth Export Controls Raise Global Alarms. Elaine Dezenski discusses how the US Treasury Secretary remarked that China's worrying economic fundamentals—including high debt and youth unemployment—are leading Beijing to use tactics like rare earth export controls to undermine the global economy. China acts as a "non-market player" using subsidies and forced labor, which corrodes the free market. Experts suggest the US must acknowledge these non-market practices and push for transparency and adherence to new, strict global trade rules.

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This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. The Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besson,

0:30.0

a remark that was blunt and candid and honest and straightforward in response to the

0:36.1

announcement by Beijing that there would be export

0:39.5

controls, aka restrictions, on rare earths. My understanding is 70% of the supply for rare earths

0:49.6

around the world comes from the People's Republic of China. My understanding is that without those

0:55.4

rare earths and the supply going out months and months and months, we're looking at an economy

1:01.1

of Europe, an economy of the United States, and all our attended partners grind into a literal

1:07.2

halt because that is the fundamentals of our electronics.

1:13.1

I'm speaking to you digitally.

1:16.4

I fall silent without those rare earth.

1:22.2

I welcome Elaine Dzensky, a senior director and head of the center on economic and financial power at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, writing a response to what happens next at the People's Republic

1:30.6

of China.

1:31.2

Mr. Bessent said, undiplomatically, but candidly, their economy is going down, I paraphrase.

1:41.7

They're in a recession depression, I quote, and they're trying to pull the rest of the world down with them.

1:47.8

I quote.

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