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Bill Foster: “Yes, back in roughly 2010 China cut back the rare-earths for magnet purposes to Japan as some--I can't remember what…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2019
Yes, back in roughly 2010 China cut back the rare-earths for magnet purposes to Japan as some--I can't remember what they were fighting about, but it was----
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing China's past actions on rare-earth exports to Japan.

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