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The scramble for rare earths, part 1

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The Importance of the Green Transition

Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's economic and political rise, observed as early as 1992 that China has the rare earths. Mountain pass has gone in and out of service, but it no longer even attempts to compete with China. There are 417 kilograms of rare earth minerals in everyone made; think of a grand piano. President Donald Trump was on the verge of slapping tariffs on rare earth imports from China,. Anything he thought that will inconvenience Beijing and damage its economy.

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