Sure, but you're implying China sources most of its minerals locally, when in fact they do most of their mining in Africa. So they are hoarding a larger than p

Sure, but you're implying China sources most of its minerals locally, when in fact they do most of their mining in Africa. So they are hoarding a larger than proportional amount of rare minerals in order to benefit themselves. > The reason China produces so much is because they're willing to pay the environmental cost of extracting them, nothing more. They're offloading it onto Africa, so they aren't really paying it themselves.