The U.S-China trade dispute has sent prices surging in rare-earth metals, an obscure but critical market for industries ranging from electric cars to fuel makers.
On Wednesday, Chinese media reported that the country may cut exports of such minerals, which are largely produced in China and used for lasers, batteries and other electronic devices. The news weighed on stocks and commodities around the world as an indication of escalating trade tensions.
But, we can lift some of these EPA restrictions and become self reliant..we arent slaves to the Chinese Communist Party..
Dems: China is bad! Something must be done!! POTUS does something Dems:OMG! We are doomed!!!
America has loads of rare earth metals. Its just that it shut down in preference to china producing them...its a dirty process. But it can be restarted and using new extraction technology so...... Fakenews
sounds good! we gotta stop scraping the earth for our entertainment and convenience anyway. 'economic growth' is not sustainable. let's not measure growth by sales of toxic chemicals... It's catastrophic for humans to keep measuring 'success' by GDP...sales of toxins
We have rare earth metal mine, but we refine them in China because of environmental regulations. Fact
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In addition of USA own rare earth capacities, Australia, Vietnam, Chile and a few africa countries can easily help. Stop fearmongering!
Shouldn't we be spinning this the other way? We are the largest consumer market in the world. Consumers drive the market. China isn't going to cut off production of these products/materials because who else would buy them?
Who could've guessed that something called 'rare earth' would be short supply.
China will never cut production to the US on these exports as they are one of their largest, if not the largest value, exports they produce.