The new "rare metal age" : new challenges and implications of critical raw materials supply security in the 21st century

• Main Author: Umbach, Frank
• Other Authors: -
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143617
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When Beijing threatened to restrict China’s export of rare earths (widely used in numerous important civilian and military technologies) to the United States at the end of May 2019, the world was reminded of China’s rare earths export disruption in the autumn of 2010 amid a maritime territorial conf...