RE:RE:RE:China Owns The EV Supply ChainTdsb,
Before I provide what is likely to be a fairly lengthy reply to the remainder of what you stated, I will need to make one most specific point clear.
Niether the past nor the present Chinese government leadership started the economic war which has been waged by and on behalf of the U.S. and it's concertedly acting Western world accomplice member nation states.
Once you utilize such a appropriate lense in viewing the matter at hand, amongst other interrelating matters as well, you will have applied the appropriate clarity in order to attain a more unbiased sense of what had always been and is most certainly presently is more so now afoot amongst the U.S. et al vs. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and all the newr entrants into the block of nation member states referred to as th BRICS ++++++++++++++
That being said, I agree with MaterialsMan.
It isn't just that China has worked very hard at, invested in and has therefore earned the right to attain and maintain nearest to a monopoly of production and supply - and not just in terms of synthetic and natuaral graphite production and the graphitic material products derived therefrom -, it's more so the case that China produces and supplies what Chinese industry processes and manufacturers for a much cheaper price. These are products the world's commercial industrial corporate entities want at a cost which is exponentially less expensive than can be matched by the Western world corporations. This ultimately guarantees greater profitability for the multitutes of corporate clients and purchasers of all that processed and "Made In China product.
It wasn't always this way; and yet, "Americanized Capitalistic Greed" being precisely the weapon which it is, enabled China's leadership throughout the years to employ said "Americanized Capitalistic Greed" weapon against those who did fashion such a weapon and invited China to utilize it in China's own hybrid specialized way.