Jamieson Greer

He's going to protect our producers so we can continue to have increased production in the U.S., increased wages here.

Well, from our perspective, we're looking for stability.

We're trying to achieve, we're trying to get the trade deficit reduced.

We're trying to increase manufacturing in the United States.

And we're trying to increase real wages.

And all of that is happening.

So we don't see a need to change our policy.

The Chinese want stability.

We want stability.

I actually see a positive agenda with China going forward where we learn to manage our trade with each other, where we pick the kinds of things we want to be selling to each other, things that are mostly non-sensitive to avoid some of the national security elements that prove challenging in negotiations.

I see stability with China over the next year.

Well, we've made a lot of progress.

We have a few months, so I think we'll assess that down the road.

You know we have Project Vault, where we're stockpiling a lot of critical minerals and rare earths.

We have new projects in the United States to mine, process, and manufacture rare earths, including permanent magnets that we need for different motors.

We're working with our counterparts and our trading partners, Australia, the EU, Japan, Mexico, to find projects we can do together to increase supply chain security.

So when we met in Paris with our Chinese counterparts a couple of weeks ago, we talked about rare earths.

The process with the Chinese is working fairly well.

There are a few things here and there where we highlighted that we didn't feel like we were getting rare earths in a timely fashion.

And we highlighted that to our partners.