28.08.2009 - Japan on alert over China’s plans to restrict exports of rare earth metals
From Timesonline.co.uk: Japan is readying itself for a potential showdown with China at the World Trade Organisation as Beijing considers plans to strangle global supplies of rare earth metals — the “green” lanthanide metals used in hundreds of environmental and military technologies. Global supply of the rare-earth metals, which are vital to the mechanisms of hybrid cars, wind turbines, iPods, lasers, super-efficient light bulbs and radar systems, is 95 per cent controlled by China..............Full Article: Source
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