Japan’s Rare-Earth Discovery Is a Strategic Nightmare for China. How Japan Quietly Undermined China’s Most Effective Weapon and Sent China Panicking.
In this video, I break down why Japan’s discovery of massive deep-sea rare-earth resources inside its own territory is a strategic blow to China’s supply-chain leverage — and why the usual argument that “China still controls refining” completely misses the point.
We’ll cover:
• Why China’s rare-earth dominance was a policy choice, not destiny
• Why refining is a solvable political and capital problem, not a Chinese monopoly
• What this means for U.S.–Japan security, deterrence, and the future of supply chains