practice in the coming months and so forth, how far can they go in actually enforcing and ensuring that the U.S. isn't just pulling a China by that. I mean, just buying those rare earth minerals and critical minerals from third parties. So I'm not sure what capacity and what authority and what ability Beijing actually has to stop the U.S. from just buying it from elsewhere. Because unless China wants to cut off the whole world, which doesn't seem like a good idea when China is trying to rally lots of countries on its side to actually push back against the U.S., that becomes very difficult. They have of course announced a suspension of buying planes from Boeing. So that's kind of stood out. It's not clear how meaningful that is for Boeing because it seems like that was a very small percentage of Boeing sales this year to begin with. So I think all we're saying, so we're giving lots of examples here, what are we really saying? What we're really saying here is that when it comes to a (26/45)
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