And it has proven to be a very useful tool to get Republicans and Democrats to sit down together and say, yeah, we all agree that China is out ahead of us, that they have already established, not just, you know, controlling the access to the minerals in terms of extraction, but processing. They are so far ahead of us in terms of processing that we've just got a lot of work to do to make sure that we can create supply chains that we can depend upon. (16:44–16:57)
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Asserts that China leads the U.S. in mineral extraction and processing.
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