Trump orders increased mining of rare-earth minerals to counter China(Slow Xiden Co-opts existing policy)

NYPost ^ | October 1, 2020 | Mark Moor

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President Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency in the mining industry, ordering the Interior Department to increase domestic production of rare-earth materials to reduce the country’s dependence on China.

The order states, “our Nation’s undue reliance on critical minerals, in processed or unprocessed form, from foreign adversaries constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.”

The US imported 80 percent of its rare-earth materials and metals last year from China, the order said, calling the reliance “concerning.”

“Our dependence on one country, the People’s Republic of China (China), for multiple critical minerals is particularly concerning.”

The executive order states, “a strong America cannot be dependent on imports from foreign adversaries for the critical minerals that are increasingly necessary to maintain our economic and military strength in the 21st century.

[Vendome]

Slow Xiden hasn't an original idea.

We have been studying this issue before "Illegally Cast Ballots Day" 2020...

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I wouldn’t complain, I’m just happy some of Trump’s policies are going to remain.