China’s Global Monopoly on Rare-Earth Elements
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This article delivers a novel economic analysis of US dependence on China for rare-earth elements and sheds light how Western nations may exploit the limitations limit pricing to break China’s global monopoly in element production refinement. analytical framework, supported by comprehensive literature review, application microeconomic industrial organization concepts, two case-study scenarios, provides several policy recommendations address most important foreign challenge United States has faced since end Cold War.
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عنوان ژورنال: Parameters
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0031-1723']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55540/0031-1723.3129