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RT Daniel Foubert 🇫🇷🇵🇱 (@Arrogance_0024)How the West fucked up the rare earths thing:China doesn’t own most of the planet’s rare earth atoms. Rare earth elements are relatively common in the Earth’s crust — about as abundant as copper or zinc. The difference is that they are usually dispersed at low concentrations, making extraction uneconomic. What gives China its dominance is not geology alone, but a combination of geological luck, historical policy decisions, and industrial strategy.In the 1980s, Deng Xi ...