Looks like a big shift in the Chinese economic situation, in terms of electronics.
1 posted on
04/12/2018 7:03:01 PM PDT by
Bogie
To: Bogie
That sounds like good news for Japan.The *bad* news for Japan is that the median age of the population is about 70 today and will be 80 before too long.Japanese men and women had better get busy of else the country will be forced to import millions of moslems.
2 posted on
04/12/2018 7:22:47 PM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
To: Bogie
Hopefully Japan beefs up their navy a bit, or they mind the 4 mile depth of the resources to be the least of their problems.
6 posted on
04/12/2018 7:32:33 PM PDT by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
To: Bogie
And they’re doing this with NO F**KING IMMIGRATION!
To: Bogie
Rare Earth elements are not at all rare. The author fails on that assumption without even bothering to simply check.
This is from the first sentence of the Wikipedia article, “Despite their name, rare-earth elements are – with the exception of the radioactive promethium – relatively plentiful in Earth’s crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million, or more abundant than copper.“
So many journalists are idiots.
14 posted on
04/12/2018 8:02:05 PM PDT by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: Bogie
You gotta love “semi-infinite”.
To: Bogie
There’s 128 million Japanese....quite enough for a small island. They will be fine with slower population growth.
To: Bogie
Now, it turns out, Japan has an estimated 16 million tons of the stuff on its turf. And researchers claim the trove might be enough to supply the world with metals such as yttrium and europium on a “semi-infinite basis.”, Best business news this year!
32 posted on
04/12/2018 8:48:12 PM PDT by
GOPJ
( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
To: Bogie
Japan invaded China in the 1940s. China would love to return the favor...
34 posted on
04/12/2018 8:56:54 PM PDT by
null and void
("We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" ~ Joseph Stalin)
To: Bogie
17 elements that are, as the name suggests, very rare No, they are not. Stopped reading right there...
44 posted on
04/13/2018 7:17:00 AM PDT by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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