The FUD failed, now China's is resorting to desperate methods !2 Aug 2022 10:14
Deja Vu, We have been here before, It did not work in 2011 with Lynas and it is definitely not going to work now !
It certainly looks like Xi is beginning to panic ~ He is shooting himself in the foot by now starting to dump RE's in a last ditch and desperate effort to dissuade the West from developing an independent RE Industry !. It is his own SOE Rare Earth producers that are going to feel the pain ! and the ROW competition will not even be coming online for at least another Eighteen months !
If he was at all smart he would be jacking RE prices up to make hay while the sun still shines on China. Once the West have developed ESG Certified supply's, China's RE's are going to be justifiably cheaper. In the interim, Western EV/Turbine/Robot manufacturers will make the most of the cheap prices, all the better for Market development.
As I said earlier, he is way too late to stop Western RE development, Putin has shown the ROW what can happen when you let any one Country dominate a commodity !