China holding rare-earth materials back from export

According to the new report on the world linear and torque motor market by IMS Research, the biggest threat to the market is the continuity of supply of rare-earth magnets, as the latest reports show that the Chinese Government intends to cut export quotas of rare earth material by 35% for the first half of 2011.

It is widely accepted that China produces 97% of the world's rare-earth material and so controls the world market for it...

It poses several questions; how are direct-drive motor manufacturers going to ensure continuity of supply of rare-earth magnetic components, and what is the motivation behind the Chinese Government's manipulation of rare-earth supply? Is it simply driving up the price of a commodity under its control, or is it looking to increase local value-added production and level of technology?

At the level of the Infantrymen in the 1/15 their job was to protect her. Higher levels of folks may have higher motives, but that was their job and what they did.

BTW, when it was time for the Marine Corps to exit the theatre of combat at the Chosen Reservoir it was the 1/15 who had the honor of protecting that exit and then escorting the Marine rear guard out of there ~ out of the hands of the blood thirsty Chicoms.

Even then the 1/15 was highly respected and feared by the Chinese who encountered them. Many a Marine of that time owes his life to the fearsomeness of the 1/15.

No one whose ever served in the 1/15 at any time in the 20th century has the slightest fear of the Chinese, or the Germans, or the Arabs. They're all the same thing ~

Ask yourself a dumb question, back in 1900 the US felt that China needs to be modern and civilized like modernized Japan, why did we protect a monarchy in lieu of supporting the southern reform movement in China modeled after Western republican ideas????

Fee, your history is completely wrong. It's history written by Chinese propagandists (and reinforced by Imperial Japanese propaganda seeking support for the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere). The reality is that Chinese revolutionaries raised funding from overseas Chinese in British colonies and North America without interference by Western powers. If they had really wanted to interfere with the revolutionaries, they would have imprisoned the fund raisers and confiscated their property. The truth is that the West was merely a spectator and repelled attacks on its concessions where they arose. In the mid-19th century, the Taiping rebels shot themselves in the foot by making mistake of threatening the British and French Concessions in Shanghai. In response, Western business interests in Shanghai hired Frederick Townsend Ward to form the Ever Victorious Army, which repelled Taiping attacks on Shanghai, stopping what had seemed to be the irresistible momentum of the Taiping rebels. It was the beginning of the end for the Taiping rebels - instead of securing Western neutrality by avoiding the Western concessions, they attacked them head on and suffered the consequences. The Chinese revolutionaries who toppled the Chinese monarchy did not make the same mistake - they studiously avoided the Western concessions (in particular, the French concession endured for 35 years after the 1911 revolution). It's also wrong to say to say that Chinese were not allowed inside the Western concessions. Like Hong Kong, anybody could purchase property there, and armies of Chinese both lived and worked in Shanghai, Tianjin and other similar cities.

Taiping Rebellion is not the Southern Movement which composed of reformers who want to overthrow the Manchus and replace it with a western style modern government. Taiping erupted in the 1870’s led by a leader who proclaim himself to be the brother of Jesus Christ.
The EVA represented the first baby steps of the Manchu to experiment with an army trained in western tactics and technology but commanded by western officers. The Chinese proved to Western military experts that they can use western technology/tactics much like the Sepoy but only if they are led by western officers. The EVA played a role in defeating the Taiping rebels but the main role was played by Chinese warlords in the south who was tire of the chaos and political intrigue that led to the three main leaders of the Taiping killing each other over a power struggle.
By the time the Boxer rebellion erupted in the late 1890’s in northern China, the warlords of the south prevented it from spreading into southern China because the average southern Chinese did not want more lawlessness and chaos. The southern warlords though serving on behalf of the Manchus were in sole control of southern China, and the modern reformers overseas took advantage of this to establish the modern movement in southern China. By 1900 the Manchus faced an immediate threat by the Boxers and an intermediate threat from the southern warlords and modernity movement in the south.
Americans overall supported the Chinese modernity movement because they saw it as a similar movement that modernize (civilized) Japan. However when the movement had the potential to come to power, the US merchants in the Far East had to bring some reality to the American government of what modernity meant the ability of US merchants to access Chinese resources and goods under a weak Manchu China vs a more competent and nationalistic modern China.
Read about Sun Yat Sen great disappointment of the US whom supported him all those years over the Chinese Republics attempt to abolish the Tariff House in Shanghai. Pres Sun did expected Europe to resist the attempt, and the US atleast stayed neutral as she balanced her support for Chinese modernity and at the same time placate her long standing relations with Europe. The US strongly sided with the Europeons in maintaining their control on setting Chinese trade tariffs after US merchants lobbied the US gov. One of the lessons the Chinese walked away with was when you are technologically and economically weak you will always be bullied by stronger powers, and most important, no matter how ideological a nation claims itself to be, it is monetary self interest that ultimately carries the day.
Unfortunately the actions of the past serves as the basis of Chinese foreign and trade policies/strategies of today.

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