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Sustainable Prevention of Resource Conflicts
New Risks from Raw Materials for the Future? Case Study and Scenarios for China and Rare Earths
(Report 3.4)"Rare earths are to China what oil is to the Middle East," stated Deng Xiaoping in 1992 (Wang 2007). China accounts for 97 percent of global rare earth production, and as such the world is more dependent on it than it is on oil from the Middle East. That situation is significant because rare earths, although usually used only in small amounts, are of great strategic relevance. They are not only ke…weiterlesen