🇨🇳 CHINA CLAPS BACK: NO MINERALS FOR YOU, U.S.!

China told the U.S. to find its own gallium, germanium, and antimony, slapping a ban on these high-tech minerals used in chips, batteries, and even military gadgets.

The move? Payback for U.S. export controls on Chinese chip-making tech.

The U.S. depends on China for over half its supply of these minerals, and with prices already soaring—antimony’s hit $25,000 per ton—this ban might sting.

Hope those chip factories find a Plan B fast.

China calls it “protecting its rights.” Critics call it “trade war 2.0.”

Either way, the tech world just got a whole lot more expensive.