Opinion | China’s rare earth export control regime is blowback from US policy
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The US shouldn’t be shocked by China’s use of export restrictions. The White House gave Beijing the blueprint and the rationale to use them.

To justify his threat of a 100 per cent tariff on imports from China, US President Donald Trump framed China’s tightening of its export controls on rare earths as “hostile”. However, Beijing’s expanded rules are a direct and reasonable response to the Trump administration’s relentless campaign of ratcheting up restrictions on Chinese companies and exports. On September 12, just two days before US-China trade talks in Madrid, Spain, the US blacklisted 23 Chinese institutions. On September 25,…

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