> The US supplied almost ALL of the planets REEs until cheap labor outcompeted it. I fail to see how that is untrue then, if the labour arbitrage holds then no

> The US supplied almost ALL of the planets REEs until cheap labor outcompeted it. I fail to see how that is untrue then, if the labour arbitrage holds then nothing is being refined in the US and is then still solely taking place in China were Xi has made it a priority to remediate destroyed soil after decades of dumping waste as Cheaply as possible during its Industrialization, mainly for export make to the West.