China exercises its leverage of rare earths on America
China has threatened to cut our supply to strange land metals in response to Trump’s tariffs, but media reports on this subject seem to ignore the most important question we can ask right now: Why do we depend on China for essential metals first?
Rare earth elements have special properties that are crucial for everything, from smartphones to magnetic resonance machines, military drones and other things. According to the reports, China is stopping exports of seven heavy rare earth metals, as well as some rare earth magnets. The CCP clearly addresses the US. National Technology and Defense Industries.
Many of us in Breitbart News have theorized that China will not stop the access of Americans to smartphones, which are highly addictive and we will keep Americans attached to their devices, or in Spy CCP Liktok applications, instead of making them realize. What happens, making it establish. What we will do what we will be watching that.
Rare earths are not necessarily so rareso to speak; But they are difficult and/or successful to extract, process and refine. For that reason, the United States has chosen not to produce ours. Shortly after joining Breitbart, our Economy editor John Carney wrote an essay that urged President Trump to prevent China from clarifying the market in rare lands. He was the only one who sounded the alarm.
Duration of its first administration, Trump himself, as well as his commercial tsar Peter NavarroHe warned the country that we are vulnerable on this issue, as documented by Jerome Hudson de Breitbart in his book 50 things you don’t want you to know about Trump.
So, we in the Breitbart universe have been modern for a long time, but what have we done about it?
Very little.
Water of the Bureaucracy and Hipocresia of Enviro
While China only controls about 30 percent of rare earth minerals that are known that they exist on the planet, Process around 85 percent. This is below a peak or 97 percent a few years ago. The reason why they are able to dominate is partial due to American mockery and hypocrisy. Our desk believes Mountains of bureaucracy That must be navigated to remove these elements from the soil (or ocean) and in a usably, largely due to environmental conerns.
Our hypocrisy factor makes things complicated even for Americans because the same people in the political left who impose strict thesis regulations in the US industries feel perfectly comfortable with the thesis of collection and manufacture of communist China in the same materials. It is a meticulous effort and expense to extract rare earths, and will inevitably be a permission process to minimize the environmental impact, but surely there is A greener way to obtain these materials than rare land entry to China.
In addition, we knew that China was able to retain rare earths for leverage because They had done it to Japan in 2010 On a minor political dispute.
We should have a leg prepared for this.
Maybe now, we will finally have the restart that we should have had many years ago.
“At this time, the only mining and processing processing installation of light rare earths in the western hemisphere is located in Mountain Pass, California. It reached a new maximum in 2024 producing 45,000 metric tons of rare earth oxides. China produced around 270. Breitbart’s John Hayward Noted in an article today. Themage is deeply worrying. We are not even trying to compete.
It’s time to get mining
There is Steps we can take today To begin the Independent of China process for rare earths, and we must start now. To start, the United States needs to increase immediately Mining in places like Nebraska. We have strange lands in friendly countries where we can safely and ethically. Next, we should buy absolutely Green Earth Largely for its rare land deposits. (It will also help us to counteract China’s incursion into the Arctic).
An important source of rare earth metals is the background of the ocean. Canada, Russia and China are actively undermining the ocean For these materials. We must do more in this regard.
And if that is not enough, we should Try to find rare earths in space And mine those. Apparently, there is an exceptional team of brave astronauts (or are they “tronautas”?) Who could only be the group of working people to help us get out of this crisis.
It is essential to decouple from China on strange lands. Hard work should have started more than a decade ago. You must start today.
This report includes an investigation by the Breitbart Tech editor, Colin Madine.
