China has won the trade war. USA does not have the rare earths to maintain its military industrial combine. China has USA over a barrel because the Chinese planned their economy with regard to capturing strategic supply chains. It is not economic for private capital to invest in rare earths refining- it was only because the Chinese government directed capital investment into this strategic supply chain that China now holds US military industrial combine and its global hegemony over a barrel. The arrogance and ignorance of US Exceptionalism is the pride that comes before the fall of a once great empire.