China Controls the Minerals of War – And the U.S. Is Running Out

The CCP Holds the Kill Switch on the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex The average American has never heard of samarium, dysprosium, or terbium. But in Beijing, those names are tools of statecraft—and weapons of economic war. These rare earth elements (REEs) are critical to the United States' most advanced military and industrial systems: fighter jets, missile guidance systems, radar technologies, electric vehicles, and satellites. And right now, China controls nearly 100% of the global supply of the most critical among them. To call this an economic liability would be naïve. This is a full-blown national security crisis. Let’s start with the numbers. The price of samarium has skyrocketed 6,000% in the last year alone. Why? Because the CCP cut off global…