This week, a group known as the China Trade Task Force posted a video on its website as well as on YouTube, stating that China had declared a war against US aluminium workers and their families.  The video features interviews with workers at Century Aluminum’s Hawesville smelter, which is operating at 40% of capacity. The company, which blames the cuts on unfairly subsidised Chinese aluminium products and overcapacity in China, is facing curtailments and closures at several other of its smelters.  But, broadly speaking, China is not currently exporting vast amounts of primary aluminium, and the fake semis game – in which semi-fabricated aluminium products from China are sold for remelt – that the country was playing for the past year or two has dried up, as several major producers have publicly stated. So while China accounts for more than half the world’s production of aluminium, it is actually a fairly self-sufficient…