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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: i-node who wrote (329942)4/6/2025 6:37:06 PM
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"China controls the biggest reserves of Rare Earth minerals, to which we sorely need"

We don't need their resources. What we need are processors.

Cowboy State Daily: Rare Earths Discovery Near Wheatland So Big It Could Be World Leader – American Rare Earths

U.S. Begins Forging Rare Earth Supply Chain (nationaldefensemagazine.org)

MOUNTAIN PASS, California — From the smartphone in your pocket to magnets powering a growing number of electric vehicles on the road, rare earth elements are the foundational components for some of the most commonly used technologies today.

But over the last three decades, Beijing has held an iron grip on the world’s supply chain for rare earth elements such that nearly all materials — no matter where in the world they are mined — travel to China for refinement before they can be used in technologies.
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