Japan's Finance Minister says Japan needs to take away China's power to 'weaponize' rare earths
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- "We want to create a [rare earth] market of proper democracies and market economies."
- "If we don't take away China's means" of monopolizing and weaponizing the metals, "it will become a constant threat in areas with nothing to do with security."
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