Rare Earth Reality
China's stranglehold remains.
Rare earths have moved out of the background and into the foreground because people are starting to understand what they actually are: not niche materials, but the substrate of modern life.
They sit inside everything—phones, cars, data centres, weapons systems, electronics. Remove them and the system stops. That’s the reality.
What matters, and what is often misunderstood, is where the control actually is.
It isn’t in the ground.
