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The 2010 Rare-Earth Metals Trade Dispute & Supply Chain Resiliency
Gone are the days of steel and fuel defining world superpowers.
Today’s technological and economic superpowers earned their enviable positions based on their unique abilities to explore and utilize untapped parts of the periodic table (and the world) to unlock new technological capabilities made possible only by the most exotic of elements.
But right now, China controls 97% of the production of United States rare-earth metal imports.