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The United States says it will take "unprecedented actions" to ensure the supply of strategic elements and rare earths, as China mulls possible export controls for materials that are critical to modern technology.
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In December 2017, Trump called on the Department of Commerce and other US agencies to develop new sources of critical materials to reduce vulnerabilities to supply disruptions, especially from foreign sources.The US report calls for improving supplies "through investment and trade with America's allies," while streamlining the issuance of permits for mining in the United States, including on federal lands.
It also lists a plan to improve mapping and data collection to promote domestic exploration.
And to think only a few short decades ago we were going to war for oil...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 06 2019, @11:30AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday June 06 2019, @11:54AM (1 child)
Fair point. GGP should have said "excercise coercive foreign policy" or some such rather than "war".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday June 06 2019, @12:10PM
Which would have been much more accurate, particularly, since the thread started by talking about actual wars rather than metaphorical ones.
Of course, one could come up with a less euphemistic approach, such as "US bullying" or the like and still be reasonably accurate. But calling this a "war" as of the bullets-flying, people-dying sort, when mostly it's modest economic sanctions and big mouths talking off the record, is a bit of nonsense.