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China and Japan Covet the Same Rare-Earth Metals
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from The Australian: "Japan's increasingly frantic efforts to lead the world in green technology have put it on a collision course with the ambitions of China and dragged both government and industry into the murky realm of large-scale mineral smuggling."
A rare-earth metal so rare that it doesn't even have a name without RTFA.
If only Japan coveted lead, they could come to some arrangement.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
Like buying gold in WoW?
it's time to start checking under your beds for communists kids.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
You do understand, of course, the astronomic (pun intended) price of the resources mined in the asteroid belt?
You know what?
I am the lawn!
[citation needed]
I'm sorry, but as a native English speaker I had no problems reading the sentence and understanding that it was a point of view. It doesn't even look like a fact.
Or maybe I should rephrase that as:
I think I'm sorry, but as I believe I'm a native English speaker I didn't perceive that I had any problems in understanding that it might have been a point of view. In my view, it didn't look like a fact. :-)