China Bans Rare Earth Sales To Japan after ship incident
 

China Bans Rare Earth Sales To Japan; Japan Starts Serious Recycling : TreeHugger


Alex previously wrote about concerns as China Tightens Grasp on Rare Earth Metals Vital for Green Technologies; now we are seeing it in action. After a dispute over a collision between the Japanese Coast Guard and a Chinese fishing boat on September 7, the Chinese cut off exports of rare earths to Japan. The dispute was settled yesterday, but the repercussions are many. One Japanese response: start recycling and mining the dumps.
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The recycling is a good idea. Japan should have been doing this even before China cut off supplies.

Besides the recycling, Japan is in negotiations with Mongolia to get rare-earth metals from them. This again will cause frictions between China and Japan.

I hope there won't be another Sino-Japanese war.

I doubt it. But the recent strong positions China has taken does worry me. I heard about a coalition being built of members like South Korea, Japan and India as security against Chinese aggression.

No worries. Japan and China's economies are completely interdependent on each other, just like the USA. There won't even be a screaming shoe fight like you sometimes see in the diet lol

China is becoming a regional threat.

Every nation looks to it's own interests first. Allways remember that.