Replenishing the advanced weapons the U.S. is using in Iran will require large amounts of tungsten, a powerful metal whose production and refining are dominated by Beijing.
As for how long it will take the West to catch up with China’s tungsten industry, “you’ll be making a decent-sized dent in a decade,” Black said. “You won’t be totally self-sufficient in under 20. And to be honest, 20 will slip into 30 quite easily.”
“But let’s say that within two decades, you’ll be in pretty good shape,” he said. “The question is, what do you do between now and then?”
The decades since the fall of USSR when the west started financializing and shipping out all the productive industry to China will be closely studied by future historians.
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The decades since the fall of USSR when the west started financializing and shipping out all the productive industry to China will be closely studied by future historians.