China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a rare earth metal that the United States and its allies need to rebuild inventories of fighter jets, missiles and other hardware.
Does it really or is this just one of those articles that manufactures consent for giving more money to the military and/or expanding destructive mining operations in the US
It absolutely does because you need rare earths for producing basically any sort of tech, and China controls the vast majority of production and refining. It would take the US decades of concerted effort to replicate that.
Does it really or is this just one of those articles that manufactures consent for giving more money to the military and/or expanding destructive mining operations in the US
It absolutely does because you need rare earths for producing basically any sort of tech, and China controls the vast majority of production and refining. It would take the US decades of concerted effort to replicate that.