RE: The Rare Earth Wars: China, Burundi, and Realpolitik for Rainbow15 Apr 2021 22:13
Exactly Sussex, bar Malaysia and Estonia, these sites are all under construction. I'll wager the Chinese are processing some 99% of the world's rees, 90% is being touted to make the West look like we took our eyes of the ball rather than grossly incompetent, insanely reckless, criminally negligent...
Worse, in the case of the US, slavishly devoted to the principle of market forces which allowed MP to go under as laissez faire economics were more important than national interest.
If I learned it takes half a ton of rees to build a fighter jet within a couple of days after buying RBW, sure NATO knew that being beholden to the Chinese was unwise.