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By monopolizing rare-earth metals, China could dictate the future of high-tech
- gwern 10y agoNo, it can't. We went through all this in 2010: there are tons of rare-earths globally which simply can't compete with Chinese dumping, embargos hurt the Chinese economy, rare-earths can easily be economized on if there is any demand, recycled, or simply not used in electronics designs, and having done it once already makes it more difficult to do it in the future.