Comment by nutjob2
9 hours ago
There is a reason China does so well refining metals like lithium and rare earths: it's difficult, resource intensive and polluting. They have about a 80% global share in lithium processing.
That doesn't matter under a communist dictatorship, but in more civilized countries people don't want it in their backyard.
Do you want to be reliant on a communist dictatorship for multiple critical inputs to your economy?
There is very little that is communist left in China.