China US trade: China has temporarily suspended the ban imposed on the export of some dual-use items to America. These include gallium, germanium, antimony and super-hard materials. China’s Commerce Ministry gave this information on Sunday (November 9, 2025). The ministry said that this suspension will be effective from today till November 27, 2026. The ministry did not share any further details in this regard. In December 2024, China had announced a ban on the export of these materials.

Relief on other export controls also
China also announced the suspension of other export controls on Friday, including restrictions imposed on some rare earth elements and lithium battery materials. This step is being linked to the agreement between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. The two leaders had earlier agreed to postpone tariff cuts and other trade measures for a year. After six years, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talked for about 1 hour 40 minutes.

Told Xi Jinping as a great leader
Trump praised Xi Jinping and said that he is a great leader of a great country and he feels that they will have a great relationship for a long time. At the same time, Xi Jinping said that he was very happy to meet Trump after many years. The two leaders last met in 2019, when Trump was in his first term. This is Trump’s first meeting with Xi Jinping in his second term.

China bans export restrictions
Earlier on Friday, China had announced that it was stopping the export restrictions imposed on October 9, in which the strictness on some rare metals and items related to lithium batteries was increased. This decision is part of the process of withdrawing the restrictions imposed earlier on a wide scale. Earlier, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump had agreed that for the next one year, both the countries would reduce tariffs and avoid new trade steps. Its purpose is to prevent trade tensions from escalating further while negotiations continue.

What is the importance of these metals?
Gallium and germanium are used in semiconductors, fiber optics, solar panels and defense systems. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), China’s dominance in the production of these metals is so great that about 98 percent of the primary gallium used in the world comes from China. After China’s export ban, American companies had to find new suppliers in Europe and South-East Asia.

Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir is directly in touch with the Trump administration to persuade the US to excavate rare meaning and oil. Analysts say the deal may offend the local population and entangle Washington into unstable domestic conflict.

Times of Israel report
According to the report published in the Times of Israel, Trump is assured that Pakistan may be a source of rare minerals and oil. But it has been removed from the President’s briefing that mining in areas like Balochistan, Waziristan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be extremely difficult or impossible. These areas are also hostile to Pakistan’s army and have given up to China here.

Warning of experts
Geophysical expert Sergio Restley says that if Trump continues on this path, the US will again return to the same areas which Biden left, citing Doha Agreement. Other analysts said that Balochistan has long been the center of ethnic and political unrest. The perception of exploitation by external forces has spoiled the situation.

China’s role and local resentment
China’s influence has already increased local dissatisfaction through CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor). Now if the US is involved in extracting resources, then this protest may increase further.

18th Amendment and local rights
According to the resteli, even after 15 years of the 18th amendment in Pakistan, the provinces have not got real rights on their resources. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is full of marble, granite, gems, chromite and copper, yet this area is poor because the profit goes to the center and does not cost local structures, education or health. The condition of Balochistan is the worst. There is a glut of resources like copper, gold, coal and rare meanings, but it is the poorest and backward province in Pakistan.

American interest and potential results
According to the report, the Trump administration has declared rare minerals as a national security priority and is watching Pakistan to reduce dependence on China. At the same time, Islamabad is eager to get foreign currency. But the deals are always fixed in the center, the army implements them and imposed on the local public.

History is a witness that projects like RECO Dick and Sandak brought a promise of billions of dollars but the local people got homeless, pollution and unrest. If America also joined now, this model will become more rigid.

Possible results- not development, repression
Experts say that such projects will not be development but repression-villages will be converted into siege, disagreement will be made a crime, royalty will be stopped and the army will be deployed in the name of strategic security. As a result, the anti -America will be anger and faster, because at the grassroots level people will find this partnership like American collusion.

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