China's strategic control over rare earth minerals represents masterful long-term planning while the West foolishly outsourced its own survival for short-term profits. Beijing executed patient siegecraft through trade policy, building 90% market dominance while Western leaders chased quarterly gains and mistook efficiency for strategy.
America's rare earth dependency crisis stems from decades of catastrophic policy failures that handed strategic assets to an adversary. The US once dominated this sector but allowed China to systematically acquire critical technologies like Magnequench while regulatory shutdowns crippled domestic production.
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