[Pikachu_Dad]

Time to reopen the U.S. mines !

Needs to be done anyway !

[Innovative]

Extremely stupid.

They may be hurting us, but they are hurting themselves too.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I hope some more sensible people will prevail.

[2banana]

Note to China...rare earth metals are not that rare.

Plenty of places to mine them. To include America.

[AAABEST]

The Dragon is flailing.

Customer is always right.

[caver]

“if the US wants to rebuild its rare-earth industry”

This sounds like we “used” to have a rare-earth industry. Is this another stupid decision on our part?

[Red Badger]

They're probably too old anyways................

[Responsibility2nd]

Rare Earth?

I remember them

Cause I'm old.

[central_va]

The gooks will do or say anything to make the stock market tank. It’s all about stock price manipulation.

[gaijin]

Bazillion tons of rare earth metals discovered near Okinawa:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/12/japan-rare-earths-huge-deposit-of-metals-found-in-pacific.html

[SomeCallMeTim]

This is a serious escalation. Rare Earth metals are vital to a LOT of US industries.

Yes, we have them in the US, and a LOT in Afghanistan. But, it will take time to develop them.

The Chinese are moving this to a whole new level of “war”. They will NOT like Trumps response.

[ryderann]

There’s closed mines all over the NC mountains. Let’s get ‘em cranked up again.

[hoosiermama]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F19A2iNOFz4

Extracting from coal

[butlerweave]

but rare earth metals are not that rare ,LOL

[_Jim]

WHERE did we get rare earths - before China?

[rellimpank]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/the-californian-rare-earths-mine-caught-between-trump-and-china

[Navy Patriot]

China Threatens To Cut Rare Earths Supplies To The U.S. -- Bad Idea

We could reopen our own mines, we got a lot, or we could trade 'em for Uranium One, ..., oh wait ...

[kiryandil]

Good thing the Halfrican, the Smirking Chimp and Rapin Bill had 24 years to take care of this strategic threat to US defense capabilities.

Oh, wait - none of those three useless piles of dog squeezins did a thing about it...

[Zathras]

Rare Earth mines are important but China really wants 5G and wants it all.
This is a shakedown to try and fracture Intel-Apple-Qualcomm.
It won’t work this time.

[gnarledmaw]

1. Initiates domestic and other sources bringing more money back home and cripples Chinas position as what is the worlds present primary source.

2. Decapitates Difichispy and some fellow travelers.

Seems Trump & crew have already thought this through.

[Billthedrill]

I remember a country that did exactly this in the 70’s - cut off a strategic resource and tried to leverage that into political control. Oil. Which we are now exporting as a consequence. Yes, prices will go up for a time, but we won’t be paying them. And then prices will come crashing down.