China frictions steer electric automakers away from rare earth magnets, page-289

To add, and the important point I often raise. We have to consider that no longer will Toyota, VW, BMW etc. place their brand in association with the supply chain that involves China and the illegal Myanmar mining. Both the human rights issues and environmental catastrophe of the region is directly related to their rare Earth supply chain. This the importance of the block chain ‘look through’ being offered by ARU.

China May lift quotas, but will the the rest of the world accept their rhetoric?

Consider the source; https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.mongabay.com/2021/06/myanmar-juntas-growing-reliance-on-extractives-for-cash-raises-concerns/amp/

MYANMAR-What had once been a relatively artisanal sector, which had some environmental impacts but was much smaller in scale, over the past 30 years turned into this heavily mechanized, highly environmentally destructive strip mining that leveled mountains,” Dietz said. “It dug up forests, it poisoned waterways around mining regions and it was a disaster environmentally.

Enter ARU without sovereign risk, human rights issues and environmental catastrophe, and also has the benefit of spreading the risk of the monopoly.