At the moment when the international nickel price plummeted by 40%, China bought 100,000 tons of high-purity nickel at the bottom!

By: HSEclub NewsJul 15, 2025

At the moment when the international nickel price plummeted by 40%, China bought 100,000 tons of high-purity nickel at the bottom, which is enough for the national military production line to run wildly for three years! Behind this "resource blitzkrieg" is the Jedi counterattack of China and Russia to break the Western technology blockade. From fighter engines to electromagnetic catapults, China's military industry, which was once stuck in the neck, now relies on strategic reserves and cooperation with allies to tear open the blockade.



China and Russia complement each other: one attracts firepower, the other breaks through silently

The twenty years that the West has been staring at Russia's arms sales are the golden period for China's military industry to counterattack. You see, the old American think tank insisted that China's fighter jets "cannot do without the Russian heart", but we bought Su-35s at all, but dismantled them! The data on the high temperature defects of the 117S engine directly fed the technical research of the domestic turbofan-15. When the J-20B was unveiled in Zhuhai with a new engine, the West was dumbfounded: How could this stealth design and DSI air intake have any "Soviet bloodline"?

Russia itself did not expect that selling equipment would become a "technical smokescreen". When they were worried about the lack of chips for the T-14 tank, China's quantum radar had won 136 global patents, and gallium nitride technology was put into practical use four years earlier than the United States. What's more amazing is that Russia has not been able to stop Ukraine's homemade drones, but China's 99A tanks can use active defense systems to weave an "electromagnetic skynet" to hit the target accurately.



Resource breakthrough: hoarding ore hoarding the lifeline of industry

Nickel price fell to cabbage price? China hoarded enough ammunition for ten years! At the end of last year, 100,000 tons of first-grade nickel were swept away, and the warehouse was full of stainless steel and rocket engine heat-resistant parts for building aircraft carrier decks. What's so fierce about this wave of operations? 67% of the world's nickel mines are in Indonesia, and the Philippines may be cut off at any time if it follows the United States. We locked up strategic resources in advance, and the West came to its senses: it turns out that they were not defending against a stainless steel gap, but preparing enough "industrial blood" for the sixth-generation fighter batteries and hypersonic missiles.

Do the math: 20 million electric car batteries, three years of full-speed operation of the military industry - this is not hoarding, it is clearly filling up the ammunition depot for technological breakthroughs in the next ten years! Russia sells oil for foreign exchange, and China uses resources to build a high wall. In this way, the United States wants to strangle the neck with chips and then strangle it with battery materials for the second time? No way.



System crushing: private enterprises become military factories in seconds

Russia lacks steel plates for shipbuilding? China directly launches a "national war"!


Shenzhen, China, developed gallium nitride chips overnight, Wuxi tackled composite armor, and Beijing AI companies wrote war codes for drones. The horror of military-civilian integration is that a factory that makes mobile phones today can switch to producing missiles tomorrow; a car production line can be converted to armored vehicles and delivered in three months.

This foundation supports the myth of production capacity: China's annual output of fighter jets is 240, 90 more than the United States, and three times that of Russia. The electromagnetic catapult efficiency of the Fujian warship exceeds that of the Ford class of the United States, and the detection distance of the KJ-3000 crushes two generations of E-3 early warning aircraft. Back then, it was mocked as the "king of imitation", but now it exports drone engines to Russia in return - the cool plot of history reversal relies on the hard power of tens of millions of private enterprises to "mobilize in wartime" at any time.


The Western blockade is fixed in the old script: it thinks that cutting off the supply of chips and keeping a close eye on Russia's technology exports can lock China. Little did they know that China and Russia had already jumped out of the chessboard - Russia attracted firepower, and China used resource war, production capacity war, and technology integration to break the situation. 67% of the strategic reserves of nickel ore are open cards, and the manufacturing system of military-civilian integration is a hidden arrow. With such a combination of punches, the blockade has completely become a decoration.

In the final analysis, the game between major powers is a competition of system endurance. When China reconstructs the rules by hoarding ore to build walls, private enterprises joining the army, and quantum radars taking off, the West should wake up: the real threat has never been the "iron buddies" joining forces, but misjudging the opponent for twenty years without realizing it.

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