GM to Invest in Next-Generation Battery Facility That Will Lower EV Costs, Accelerate

[Gistok]

Maybe because China has cornered the market on lithium and may soon have access to the world's biggest deposits in Afghanistan.

I'm not sure that's true. Here's the largest known reserves of Lithium [[not sure how that equates to current mining)....

Where is lithium available from?
With 8 million tons, Chile has the world’s largest known lithium reserves. This puts the South American country ahead of Australia [[2.7 million tons), Argentina [[2 million tons) and China [[1 million tons). Within Europe, Portugal has smaller quantities of the valuable raw material. The total global reserves are estimated at 14 million tons. This corresponds to 165 times the production volume in 2018.

[Richard]

I'm not sure that's true. Here's the largest known reserves of Lithium [[not sure how that equates to current mining)....

Where is lithium available from?
With 8 million tons, Chile has the world’s largest known lithium reserves. This puts the South American country ahead of Australia [[2.7 million tons), Argentina [[2 million tons) and China [[1 million tons). Within Europe, Portugal has smaller quantities of the valuable raw material. The total global reserves are estimated at 14 million tons. This corresponds to 165 times the production volume in 2018.

In order to get the bigger picture you have to look at it,China is Chiles direct trading partner.

They made billions of loans to them.

China controls because China plays the loan shark.

Chile
Venezuela had to pledge 70% of all of their future oil production in order to pay off billions in loans.
Greenland - also rich with materials
China loaned billions in infrastructure.
Africa where many of the materials comes from now
China has literally taken over the cities that produce the minerals after investing billions into their infrastructure.

You do not think the Taliban will not sell out the mineral rights for Chinas support?

Argentina

China invested 10 billion in Argentina’s rail system alone,not loaned them the money,gave them the money.

Argentina sells 60% of its pork production to China every year,they produce 800,000 tons.

That is what China does,if you as a country are in need of funds and desperate they will be there with a checkbook but it will cost you because they then control you.

I dated a Chinese girl,her parents were mouth to ear with the most powerful people in China and they depended on her parents.

They wanted me to marry her,which would have gave me excess to funds that would have made the 1% in this country look like paupers,I walked,very few has any idea of how they operate long term and what the cost of that money is.

That kind of money controls countries,the reality of it is in most countries,you start throwing chump change of a billion dollars at politicians,nobody tells you what you can and cannot do,you dictate to them.

You can bet any country that China has a hand in,you can also bet they are in control of them,they would never give them a dime if they thought otherwise.

If you are following the politics of Australia,they are one step away of full on dictatorship control.

From 2018

Chinese loans worth hundreds of billions of dollars are saddling Australia's smaller regional neighbours with unsustainable debts and giving Beijing crucial economic leverage to gain strategic and military power, warns a new independent report presented to the US State Department.



That’s what they do,loan countries billions,when the country cannot pay it back,they have to concede assets to China,both current and future or China simply can crash thier monetary system and destroy that country.

China’s Belt and Road initiative

Covers 65 countries
Controls 30 % of all global GDP
Encompass 60% of the world’s population
Directly controls 75% of the worlds resources

Anybody really think they are playing around?

They have a plan and it has little to do with us,more so crushing us and removing the dollar as a world currency,not that it really matters because it is supported/funded by a majority of Americans anyways who are actually funding our own demise.

That’s why they do not give a crap about climate change,outside of collecting the billions we send them to to build products to save a planet that they are full blown out to control.

Our voice when it comes to all of this comes with an expiration date that has already been determined and we will actually have little to say in anything let alone climate change.

Right now today

The United States represents 5% of the worlds population but consumes 24% of the worlds resources.

Before factoring in the resources needed for addressing EVs etc.

Do the math ,when 75% percent of the worlds resources in the future are controlled by somebody else who dictates to who?

They are projecting by 2050 the population in the US will increase equal to adding an additional 4 states the size of California.