Explainer: China's rare earth supplies could be vital bargaining chip in U.S. trade war

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Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of consumer products, from iPhones ...

WASHINGTON - Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of consumer products, from iPhones to electric car motors, as well as military jet engines, satellites and lasers.

Several rare earth elements, such as neodymium and dysprosium, are critical to the motors used in electric vehicles.Some rare earth minerals are essential in military equipment such as jet engines, missile guidance systems, antimissile defense systems, satellites, as well as in lasers.The U.S. Defense Department accounts for about 1% of U.S. demand, which in turn accounts for about 9% of global demand for rare earths, according to a 2016 report from the congressional U.S.

Rare earth metals are a group of 17 elements - lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, yttrium - that appear in low concentrations in the ground. Few alternative suppliers were able to compete with China, which is home to 37% of global rare earths reserves.

 

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Technology is going to make rare earths obsolete. The Japanese are making sure of it.

Rare earth in China will never be given to Americans

First mother earth,then rare earth! can't it be synthesized!

Great - undermining US interests, what a crap news service

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China got abundance of rare eath materials. US have rare earth but to daym lazy to dig them lmao

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Sooner or later 'rare earth' minerals and outsourced production will be the Chinese blackmail to 'confiscate and take over the China Sea and Taiwan( Formosa )' towards US an the EU.

Not if we build a LFTR power plant FlibeEnergy

“Rare Earth Supplies” Look at maps of where the “Rare Earth Supplies” are located & who do you think you’ll find ...? Oil is too limited a poltical conversation as it relates to “Earth’s Supplies”

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China or Africa?

What is it that the Chinese buy from us? Oh yeah, I think it's food.

The US needs to look for these minerals ELSEWHERE on this planet and STOP SUCKING China's BEHIND

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