Article 6YJMF Precious 'Chinese' rare earths are often from war-torn Myanmar

Precious 'Chinese' rare earths are often from war-torn Myanmar

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Patrick Winn (Patrick Winn)
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They're shiny metals, can be hard to find and they're essential to building high-tech equipment - from electric cars to fighter jets. Rare earth metals" are dominated by one country: China. Once obscure, rare earth metals shot to prominence when China cut exports to the outside world - a strategy to hurt the US amid the ongoing trade war. What many people overlook is that many so-called Chinese" rare earths aren't from China at all. The World's Patrick Winn reports.

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