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Episode: OIES Podcast – Unpacking China's dominance in rare earths
Description: In this podcast from the OIES China programme, Michal Meidan talks to Philip Andrews-Speed and Anders Hove about their upcoming paper. They discuss the importance of rare earths, how China became dominant in their mining and processing and how Western governments are responding to this vulnerability. Rare earth elements are becoming increasingly important for the low-carbon energy transition given their application in batteries and permanent magnets for wind turbines and electric vehicles. Today, China accounts for about 70% of rare earth ore extraction and about 90% of processing and refining to produce rare earth metals. China's dominance of the rare earth...