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A tiny Japanese island sits astride deep-sea rare earth deposits — ones that could "meet centuries' worth of industrial demand," a U.S.-Japan statement said.
In front of Japan's Minami-Torishima island, Washington and Tokyo want to promote raw materials from the seabed. The project is technically risky, geopolitically explosive – and could provoke China.