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:NOW China really has the US by the balls

[afidel]

I don't know about you but I'd rather be beholden to the Chinese than the Arabs, the Chinese don't have much desire to see our way of life go away, in fact they seem to want to emulate us.