How China Killed Every Rare Earth Competitor Before It Could Get Started

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China’s most effective weapon in the rare earth war wasn’t a missile, a tariff, or a trade embargo. It was a price tag. For more than two decades, Beijing has used a remarkably simple strategy to maintain its stranglehold on the global rare earth supply chain: whenever a Western company would get serious about building an independent processing capability, China would act to crash prices. And the result is generally the same: the investment case falls apart, the funding disappears, and the company folds. China’s monopoly survives…

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Original article published by OilPrice.com on May 5, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.

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