“The car industry says they will shut down in about 2 weeks without neodymium.”
No motor vehicle may be imported into the USA unless it is accopanied by one pound? of neodymium.
Let the Koreans, Japanese, Mexicans and Europeans solve that problem.
Not bad, but I think the Chinese have anticipated it.
They are not exporting neodymium to anyone. So insisting on it from someone else fails. In fact, you can probably find a link to India car industry having to shut down because of neodymium.
They figured it out before we did. It will take years to scale up our own facilities. They can require their own specifiers in return for neodymium. (One of those rules can be that we end any projects intended to make our own)