💨 Abstract

The article discusses the geopolitical struggle for control of rare earth minerals, essential for technology and energy production, which America gifted to China in the 1980s due to their toxicity and dangerous processing. This decision is now causing concern as China threatens to restrict exports in retaliation for US tariffs. The history of the US-Japan trade dispute during World War II and the US's protection of Middle Eastern oil are used as analogies.

Courtesy: theprint.in

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