@Cje95 is unable to explain how the US military industrial complex can survive this challenge from China. China has won the trade war and guess what - you need rare earths to fight a modern war and so now China has won the military contest as well.

US Exceptionalist HYPE Blinded the USA to its vulnerabilities. Decades or neglect of the US productive-industrial base leave the US empire exposed and weak and vulnerable. It will be a decade or more, perhaps never before USA regains the ability to fight a war of any substance. Game over Uncle Sam.

Percentage of global refined rare earth production-

'The US has one operational rare earths mine, but it does not have the capacity to separate heavy rare earths and has to send its ore to China for processing. There used to be US companies that manufactured rare earth magnets - until the 1980s, the US was in fact the largest producer of rare earths.

But these companies exited the market as China began to dominate in terms of scale and cost.

This is largely believed to be part of why US president Donald Trump is so keen to sign a minerals deal with Ukraine - it wants to reduce dependency on China.

Another place Trump has had his eye on is Greenland which is endowed with the eighth largest reserves of rare earth elements.

Trump has repeatedly showed interest in taking control of the autonomous Danish-dependent territory and has refused to rule out economic or military force to take control of it.

These might have been places that the US could have sourced some of its rare earth exports from, but the adversarial tone Trump has struck with them means the US could be left with very few alternative suppliers.'