>>12289591

It's a thin facade.

Russia is dealing with intrusion into its territory from the South. Siberia is vastly mineral wealthy, as are many of the former soviet nations.

China has fewer pure ores than many other nations and relies more on cheap processing than on its own mineral wealth. The problem is that if other nations begin waking up to the fact China is trying to destroy all base manufacturing in its rivals - they will stop exporting labor (and realize their citizens are going absolutely insane with imposter syndrome and other paychological maladies from not doing anything productive with themselves).

…. Assuming the people in charge of said rival nations actually care about their populations and believe China will have any respect for them once done using them.

>>12289774

Stop looking at spreadsheets and start looking at maps. Where is "China" producing these things from?

>>12289799

Depends on what we are calling gold production, as well.

China is BUYING a lot of gold. It may also be offering up most of the gold on the Comex. Depending upon exactly what one is looking at as gold production….

I look at production as where the material is mined, where it is processed into stock, where it is further processed into market goods. Iron ore, for example, being mined in many parts of Pennsylvania. It is often smelted locally as it doesn't make sense to transport it long distances as raw ore. Then this stock is traded on a market to specific foundries who make specific alloys out of it, usually as a specific form of stock - metal sheet, bar, tube, etc - which is then sold to manufacturers who cut, press, break, weld etc as part of making a consumer or commercial product.

This is why China's production of aluminum was important to look at - or more specifically, in comparison to U.S. aluminum production and the difference between primary smelt and secondary smelt (recycling).

>>12289971

The economy is the exchange of goods and services. When people learn to think in terms of how long they must work or the scale of task which must be completed in order for them to earn the trade, rather than by arbitrary numbers on slips of paper, they will awaken to the true horror which has befallen their nation and civilization.

Or… Which was deliberately engineered.