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."

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Re:China's bastnasite and monazite supply for magn

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Also, an AC on /. that read Wikipedia is not a reliable source :)

That's given, but thanks nonetheless.