Explainer: Why is China’s rare earths ‘model’ not easy to break or replicate

Explainer: Why is China’s rare earths ‘model’ not easy to break or replicate

Deng Xiaoping, the second most popular leader after Mao in post-1949 China and known as the “chief architect” of modern China for having launched market reform policies in December 1978, said during an inspection tour to Inner Mongolia in 1992, “The Middle East has oil, and China has rare earths.” Over a quarter century later, […] The post Explainer: Why is China’s rare earths ‘model’ not easy to break or replicate appeared first on Modern Diplo…