Why China's Control Of Rare Earth Minerals Threatens The United States Updated for 2026

Updated: June 21, 2026



China dominates the market for rare earth minerals. It also happens to the prime target in President Trump’s trade war. China is home to the world’s largest …

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38 Comments on “Why China's Control Of Rare Earth Minerals Threatens The United States Updated for 2026”

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    China has some of world's most advanced weapon systems, Pentagon warns

    With medium- and intermediate-range missiles and hypersonic weapons, China now is at leading edge

    China is on the cusp of fielding some of the world’s most advanced weapons systems – and in some cases already has surpassed its rivals, a Pentagon assessment found.

    An unclassified report by the Defense Intelligence Agency says Beijing has made enormous military strides in recent years, thanks partly to domestic laws forcing foreign partners to divulge technical secrets in exchange for access to China’s vast market.

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    [url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/16/china-has-some-of-worlds-most-advanced-weapon-systems-pentagon-warns

    Lead and zinc are available, and bauxite resources are thought to be plentiful. China's antimony reserves are the largest in the world.
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  2. Actually rare earth's are neither rare nor unique to China. They are distributed world wide and we have plenty in the US that we could mine, we just aren't. The big challenge with rare earth's is separating them from each other. Because rare earth's all are very similar chemically. With rare earth's the outer shell of electrons is the same, the next inner shell is not, but since it's largely screened from the outside, it only minimally affects chemical interaction.

  3. China is restricted rare earth minerals because its rare earth minerals are just depleting THE CHINESE ARE KEEPING THE RARE EARTH MINERALS FOR THEIR OWN USE, AFTER ALL, THEY HAVE 1.4 PEOPLE, THEY NEED THOSE RARE EARTH MINERALS FOR FUTURE USE. The Chinese authorities already warned the Western companies and others more than 10 years ago. CHINA DOESN'T HAVE THE ENDLESS SUPPLIES OF THOSE RARE EARTH MINERALS TO THE WORLD.

  4. Banned rare earth to US and all US made hand phone companies will cease operation, by then Trump will be seen using Huawei hand phone. HA HA HA HA HA !

  5. The US and China have almost equal amounts of rare earths. The US just chooses not to mine them. Shrub almost sold the bulk of our supply to China, then we really would be screwed. This video is b.s.

  6. Rank of Countries for known reserve of Rare Earth Material :
    1) China 🇨🇳
    2) Brazil 🇧🇷
    3) India 🇮🇳
    4) Australia 🇦🇺
    5) USA 🇺🇸
    ***Significant reserves are yet to be found in Russia 🇷🇺

  7. Rear Earth minerals aren’t rare, they are just hard to separate from the ore them come in. Sure they are concreted certain part of the world but they are definitely not rare.

  8. The trade war goal of humiliating China into submission is unrealistic. That "easy to win" goal was based the fact that China is non-white and the Trump represents western whites and thus supreme. Late 1950s mentality is at fault here. China did suffer western invasions and humiliations for the past 100+ years, and it is a lot different today. Now you see where each side of the US-China trade war is coming from.

  9. So many China-apologists in the comment section.
    Oh well time to get them banned.
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  10. It's no threat, once they spin up production elsewhere. Brazil and Vietnam combined both have as much rare earth reserves as China. In the long run China looses.

  11. Trump :
    Earth minerals – a threat to US
    Huawei – a threat to US
    Liberal army, one belt one road, infrastructure engineering in Africa, military drill in our territorial sea, development of high tech, made in China 2025…..
    All these are threats to US

    I just wanna give this crazy president my middle finger 🖕🖕🖕

  12. Lmao the title said “threat’’ how? The rare earth is found in their homeland ,of course they get to decide where it goes. Just like I decide who can eat my muffins. Its as simple as that.

  13. Start withdrawing manufacturing from China and let their people start their internal revolution..
    …that’s the simplest way to do it…many countries like Mexico will be happy to give them jobs….

  14. Honestly, without US stepping in, China would be long gone in the world war 2. Oh wells some ungrateful people who now wanna control most countries by planting their seeds everywhere.

  15. It turns out that coal, and many of its byproducts, would be a good source of rare earth elements. Since we have enormous coal reserves and large dumps of coal ash, from which these rare earths could be extracted, we are not totally dependent on China for these materials.

  16. LMAO! What threat, they are right where they need to be. Standing on a single sheet of cardboard over a pit.

  17. American ideologies:
    China is threatening America
    Russia is threatening America
    North korea is threatening America
    Native american is threatening America
    Phone company is threatening America
    Middle east is threatening America
    President xi is threatening America
    Edward Snowden is threatening America
    Climate change is threatening America
    Rare metal is threatening America
    Snow is threatening America
    Mars is threatening America
    Air is is threatening America

  18. Reading the title, already knew which way the wind is blowing….How come its always china threatening America……when America has the largest army? ……..

  19. I don't see the triangle I just Googled that you can get rare earth metals from all over the world to Russia India Brazil Austria America and a few others I forgot seems like we just need to ramp up production in those countries

  20. Forget about China threatening the US regime because that is fiction. The bald truth is that it is the rogue US regime that is threatening everyone else.

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