China holds a monopolistic level of control on the industrial processing of rare earth minerals. The minerals themselves are not rare; it’s the processing of them into refined elements used in industrial electronic component manufacturing that gives China power. The U.S. and China hold a current trade agreement saying, essentially, we will remain steady with […]
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