Japan media (Yomiuri Shimbun) with the report:

  • China is considering banning the export of technologies used to produce high-performance rare earth magnets deployed in electric vehicles, wind turbine motors and other products, citing “national security” as a reason
  • Beijing is currently in the process of revising its Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export — a list of manufacturing and other industrial technologies subject to export controls
  • ... manufacturing technologies for high-performance magnets using such rare earth elements as neodymium and samarium cobalt were added to the export ban in a draft

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Note the draft referred to above was issued in December 2022.

The rare earth threat from China has been plodding along for what, a couple of years ??? … and now w