No doubt China will buy the area out, mine all the lithium, use what they can and sell off the surplus to the highest bidder to prop up their economy, and then turn it into an agricultural area so they can raise soybeans and hogs.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake