HEADLINE: US Response to China's Rare Earth Threat and Stockpiling GUEST NAMES: Victoria Coates, Gordon Chang SUMMARY: China injected the rare earths threat into trade talks, a serious move given they supply 70% of US needs and US stockpiles are low. Pr
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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GUEST NAMES: Victoria Coates, Gordon Chang
SUMMARY: China injected the rare earths threat into trade talks, a serious move given they supply 70% of US needs and US stockpiles are low. President Trump responded with 100% tariffs but later sought an off-ramp. Experts stress the urgent need for the US to develop a domestic supply and a national stockpile, similar to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, to counter future Chinese blackmail.
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| 0:23.8 | This is CBS. I in the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, |
| 0:30.5 | my colleague and co-host and friend. And we're very privileged to be speaking to |
| 0:34.7 | Victoria Coates of the Heritage Foundation about the People's Republic |
| 0:38.7 | of China and events of these last days. The markets responded very negatively to the initial |
| 0:47.6 | exchange of information between Beijing and Washington about rare earths, but about a trade |
| 0:53.6 | negotiation said to be underway. The terms |
| 0:57.8 | that were very harsh. And now several days, hours later, we have two quotes from the Wall |
| 1:05.1 | Street Journal that informed the same audience that was worried then is less worried now. but one quote from the president in the Wall Street Journal, making it official. |
| 1:16.5 | Don't worry about China. |
| 1:17.9 | It will all be fine. |
| 1:19.6 | Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. |
| 1:24.2 | President posted this on true social within hours. He added, the USA wants to help China, |
| 1:30.2 | not heard it, three exclamation points. And from the vice president, Mr. Vance, we had another |
| 1:36.9 | remark that seemed very positive. Mr. Vance, appearing on Fox News, said that the president of the United States intends good things, |
| 1:47.6 | generally speaking, Mr. Vance spoke, good things for all the people, not just the United States. |
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