Kitco.com reported that China's stranglehold on rare metals :

China's proposals for a new world currency to replace the dollar have drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks. But the Americans should be more concerned about another development that's largely been ignored. It seems that after 15 years of fighting tooth and claw, China is now the world's dominant supplier of an obscure group of minerals called rare earth metals.

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