"I find it rather laughable that [the Biden administration] actually thought that they're going to win this tech war," Thomas W. Pauken II, the author of US vs China: From Trade War to Reciprocal Deal, and a consultant on Asia-Pacific affairs, told Sputnik. "You don't have access to the rare earth, you don't have access to the supply chains in order to produce these electronics - you're totally destroyed, you're devastated, the US knew about this. They knew how much they were reliant on the rare earths. They knew how much they had to rely on China in order to reshore their factories. And instead of trying to find ways to cooperate, they just decided to go ahead and just do these no nasty, terrible attacks against China and then just somehow think they're going to score a victory here."
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"[Biden aides are] trying to take control of the US foreign policy, which is absolutely disastrous right now," said Pauken, commenting on the recent ban. "And these are the people who are probably working for Biden, trying to think that he's going to win and he's going to end up coming out a big loser and they're going to destroy the US economy. (…) The only way to turn away from this is for countries to try to find ways to improve their trade deals with China. And if they find that they can improve their relations with China, they will likely not be hit hard by this rare earths export ban."