Lynas linked to rare earths mega-merger as price falls bite - AFR, page-50

The only reason companies should merge is because the new company has a high potential to be mor profitable than the two separate companies alone.

You need to explain how National Security issues, and which ones can help profitability to make your reasons more potent.
True but they are not at $160 They are at %49.73 US or $76.50 AU. Not clear what currency you were using. Talking about 160 Us is totally ridiculous and it has never been that high in the last 9 years. Even Lynas use USD in all their reports when they talk REE prices. If you are using something different than standard that is OK but you need to label it. Either way the price is less than half of $160.00 we need to wait for it to be moving up strongly before we use it. AU 76.00 to 160 is over a 100% gain. US is 300%+

Yes they are tied to China for current production and this will last for at least a year or two. A few years back they did A SPO just so the Chinese's could sell all their stock. There is no direct ownership of MP by Chinese. I am sure there is indirect just like there is probably indirect ownership of Lynas. But no Chinese's corporation or individual is listed as a holder. Here is Yahoos list of the top 10 holders The smallest is Geode Capital Management, LLC at 1.07% do you see any China influence here at all? https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MP/holders?p=MP If you want to check further her is the 2022 AR what do you see. Here is anual report 2022 if you want to dig further. I would wait the new AR should be out in FEB.

Your 9% is seriously outdated. Yes at one time China owned over 50% of MP. they have worked this down to it is well under 1% If you are going to post and you should make sure your data is correct and not something from old memory.

Pure speculation without a shred of data!!!