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China and Japan Covet the Same Rare-Earth Metals

Posted by timothy on from the as-do-we-all dept.

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."

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  1. WOW! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A rare-earth metal so rare that it doesn't even have a name without RTFA.

  2. Shame... by cffrost · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only Japan coveted lead, they could come to some arrangement.

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