If ever there was evidence for the risk of relying on globalism, for exposure of the ignorant rantings of naïve ivory-tower economists who chant “let tasks be performed by the country that can do them the cheapest…it’s more e-ffi-cient ”, as well as for the vindication of strategic protectionism, this is it.

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> Backlash over China curb on metal exports

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> China's draconian export curbs on rare earth minerals needed by the rest of the world for frontier technologies is escalating into a serious diplomatic and trade clash with the United States and other leading powers.
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> http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/finance/ newsbysector/ industry/ mining/7970872/ Backlash- over-China- curb-on-metal- exports.html
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