Harvest it right. And do crazy things with it. What's our plan here in America to be competitive when it comes to needing those rare earth metals? Very focused on this. China used this leverage against us about a year ago. You know, everything with a button on it has a little bit of a rare earth element magnet inside it, and they dominate the supply of those, not because it's great economics, but because they wanted that strategic leverage over us. (05:57–06:00)
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Asserts that China used its control over rare earth metals as leverage against the U.S.
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