“America’s security and economy increasingly depend on the exotic metals and minerals that go into high-tech manufacturing, from batteries that will be crucial to Joe Biden’s climate plan to the high-power magnets needed for the Pentagon’s precision-guided weapons.
And they’re largely controlled by China, the leading economic and military rival to the United States.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/18/china-could-strangle-biden-agenda-437171