China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardApr 5, 2025, 1:31 pm525 ptsHotTop
In April 2025, while most of the world was clutching pearls over trade war tit-for-tat tariffs, China calmly walked over to the supply chain and yanked out a handful of critical bolts. The bolts are made of dysprosium, terbium, tungsten, indium and yttrium—the elements that don’t make headlines but without…

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