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🇺🇸🇨🇳 China may already have its answer to U.S. sanctions Washington’s biggest constraint on sanctioning Beijing is actually rare earths. “You sanction us. This is what you’re going to see happen on a 10x level.” The U.S. is making progress mining rare earths, but Brandon says the critical bottleneck... show more

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