"I spent the night skating down the Marble Hallways of the deserted hotel in my socks," he says. "There was a giant Christmas tree in the lobby and underneath it brightly wrapped boxes labeled iPad, iPod, iPhone, iMac." On Monday morning I went to a magnet factory. Even though they are small, these rare earth magnets have exceptional strength. The product in the supermarket. A wood in someone to steal. Yeah, so the locks, the magnets are so cool. That's what we're here for!"
We continue our journey to the center of the cloud, by way of the earth: Rare Earth. China controls 95% of the market for the 17 Rare Earth elements that power our invisible technologies so your host decides to pay a visit to the Ganzhou region, to see the illegal mines in the with his own eyes.
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