China's blockade means rare earth minerals vital to U.S. military, microchips just got rarer

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China is blocking -- or at least slow-walking -- the export of rare earth minerals used in military equipment, cars and other materials, adding a serious wrinkle to the emerging trade war between the U.S. and China.

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