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August 29, 2024 Today on New Security Beat Mine the Tech Gap: Why China's Rare Earth Dominance Persists By Nayan Seth In recent years, China's stranglehold over Rare Earth Elements has underscored its strategic leverage in global supply chains. Despite Western efforts to diversify sources, China maintains a significant edge in mining, processing, and refining these metals. As global tensions persist, the focus on creating China-independent supply chains masks the broader problem: developing sustainable processing capacities and technologies. The US also needs to address the processing know-how gap as a strategic technological challenge and not just a pollution problem.

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