My latest TikTok update on China’s rare earth embargo. 

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86GvGk6/

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I think it seeped into the public consciousness when we started trying to adopt clean energy technologies that need them. Around 2021ish

Since you’re a journalist i have a question that i have been curious about recently. After decades of China having dominating control over rare earth minerals within borders of other nations, why does it seem like it’s just now that the public seems concerned?

What shifted that made people care now but haven’t seem to care for many years?

Life gets easier when you stop reading headlines.

10 years in the field huh?

That’s a long time, I guess (jk… I just like the Simpson)