This is a wonderful wide-ranging discussion about what went on, not only in the meeting between China and Mordor but with the increasing interconnection of other Eurasian countries.
As it turns out China is not giving Mordor rare earth minerals it needs for a year. They will only be released if Mordor releases its control over Chinese companies doing business in the US. The anti-Chinese neocons Trump has surrounded himself with will not stand for it. So no ground has been ceded.
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