China shrinks rare earths export quota

What have you learned from China? They use the media to manipulate expectations to hide their true intentions. Gee, sounds like a familiar Western practice. China (unlike the West) is following a specific long-term plan. This makes them a respectable opponent in “the game”.

The talking heads that suggested that rare earth metals was not a short to intermediate supply problem for the West did an excellent job in misinforming the weak hands. The newswire is a tool. Those that cannot reason, or let others do their reasoning will be susceptible to the tools of the operators.

China is scaling back its exports next year of rare earth minerals used in high tech products, which could be an unpopular move with countries such as the United States and Japan.

Numbers released Tuesday by the Commerce Ministry show export quotas of the rare minerals will be down 11 percent next year as compared to the same period this year.

Source: forbes.com