Rare Earth minerals deposit could end Chinese dominance

[Vambram]

New Arctic discovery could deal massive blow to Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals

Alaska's GraphiteOne project near Nome discovers massive rare earth mineral reserves, potentially breaking China's 90% market dominance in critical materials.

www.foxnews.com

This is very good news!

 

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New Arctic discovery could deal massive blow to Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals

Alaska's GraphiteOne project near Nome discovers massive rare earth mineral reserves, potentially breaking China's 90% market dominance in critical materials.

www.foxnews.com

This is very good news!

Rare earths are not actually that rare outside China. What is rare is developed commercial sources of them. The concerning thing here is that the Chinese understood this ten years ago while free market capitalism decided it was not worth pursuing until the numbers added up. So the obvious question is whether Chinese communism is superior to the current Western system of governance when it comes to strategic decision making?

Americans have been criticising Europeans for a similar lack of strategic awareness on matters of military and energy security and now have a told you so attitude as the EU scrambles to catch up with the modern world. But the rare earth monopoly that China currently enjoys could also have been anticipated in the same way.

So what are the new areas where America and its allies are blind to global trends but the Communists are already preparing. Do we have a plan or are we just going to let Wall Street bungle this one also as they did with Rare Earths?

 

[Larniavc]

So the obvious question is whether Chinese communism is superior to the current Western system of governance when it comes to strategic decision making?

Both economic systems have their pros and cons but share the important facets. Toffs at the top Plebs at the bottom and Grifters in between.

 

[timewerx]

Rare earths are not actually that rare outside China. What is rare is developed commercial sources of them. The concerning thing here is that the Chinese understood this ten years ago while free market capitalism decided it was not worth pursuing until the numbers added up. So the obvious question is whether Chinese communism is superior to the current Western system of governance when it comes to strategic decision making?

Americans have been criticising Europeans for a similar lack of strategic awareness on matters of military and energy security and now have a told you so attitude as the EU scrambles to catch up with the modern world. But the rare earth monopoly that China currently enjoys could also have been anticipated in the same way.

So what are the new areas where America and its allies are blind to global trends but the Communists are already preparing. Do we have a plan or are we just going to let Wall Street bungle this one also as they did with Rare Earths?

This has nothing to do with the political system.

Americans and Europeans are just overly confident and overly secure.

Some worrying, some insecurity isn't always bad and can even be good because we take additional steps to plan, to be cautious and be more calculating in our actions.

So perhaps it may have to do with religion because we're indoctrinated in Christianity to leave our worries to God. In other words, never worry, never feel insecure. Yet I don't think this even doctrinally correct in context because even Jesus worried!

 

[chevyontheriver]

Rare earths are not actually that rare outside China. What is rare is developed commercial sources of them. The concerning thing here is that the Chinese understood this ten years ago while free market capitalism decided it was not worth pursuing until the numbers added up. So the obvious question is whether Chinese communism is superior to the current Western system of governance when it comes to strategic decision making?

Americans have been criticising Europeans for a similar lack of strategic awareness on matters of military and energy security and now have a told you so attitude as the EU scrambles to catch up with the modern world. But the rare earth monopoly that China currently enjoys could also have been anticipated in the same way.

So what are the new areas where America and its allies are blind to global trends but the Communists are already preparing. Do we have a plan or are we just going to let Wall Street bungle this one also as they did with Rare Earths?

Rare earth metals are not that rare but the isolation of them is difficult. It causes a lot of pollution. China was willing to take that on, as perhaps the most polluted and polluting country on the planet. Maybe we can do it better, now that prices are high, but maybe not.

 

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Rare earth metals are not that rare but the isolation of them is difficult. It causes a lot of pollution. China was willing to take that on, as perhaps the most polluted and polluting country on the planet. Maybe we can do it better, now that prices are high, but maybe not.

A mine in the Alaskan Artic might well be immune from those kinds of complaints. That Rare Earths could also be mined in more populous states is not mentioned in the article.

 

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This has nothing to do with the political system.

Americans and Europeans are just overly confident and overly secure.

Some worrying, some insecurity isn't always bad and can even be good because we take additional steps to plan, to be cautious and be more calculating in our actions.

So perhaps it may have to do with religion because we're indoctrinated in Christianity to leave our worries to God. In other words, never worry, never feel insecure. Yet I don't think this even doctrinally correct in context because even Jesus worried!

Comfortable does not have to equal strategic blindness. This is a failure of the power and money elites that rule the Western world but it seems that no one within the system will hold them to account for this. I just hope it will not be foreign powers that do that to us.

 

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Both economic systems have their pros and cons but share the important facets. Toffs at the top Plebs at the bottom and Grifters in between.

It is clear that we are richer and freer living in the West. The stories of Communist persecution of Christians are growing more and more seriously daily. But poor strategic planning and its vulnerability to spies are major weaknesses despite the billions spent on intelligence agencies.

 

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So what are the new areas where America and its allies are blind to global trends but the Communists are already preparing. Do we have a plan or are we just going to let Wall Street bungle this one also as they did with Rare Earths?

DING! Solar energy and other renewables.

The more solar it creates the less dependency on other things.

 

[Laodicean60]

So what are the new areas where America and its allies are blind to global trends but the Communists are already preparing. Do we have a plan or are we just going to let Wall Street bungle this one also as they did with Rare Earths?

We weren't blind to the National security issue with China and their rare earths. We knew about this since 2010, on their first embargo. The media has done a good job distracting us from the real issues facing both left and right Americans. Our politicians didn't have the political will to make themselves look bad for the good of the country in 2010, and China is playing the same shenanigans today.

If we were to get into a hot war with Russia or China, we wouldn't be able to keep up with armament production and would be heavily reliant on the other NATO members.

Rare earth metals are not that rare but the isolation of them is difficult. It causes a lot of pollution. China was willing to take that on, as perhaps the most polluted and polluting country on the planet. Maybe we can do it better, now that prices are high, but maybe not.

Political will to do what's right. I think climate change had something to do with Obama not taking action.