LOL. Seriously. You think it's China's fault!? 

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DURPa DURPA DURP!

hello hugh!

America could always dig up its own national parks for these and other minerals, instead of demanding that china just decimate there own country and hand over all there goodies at a cheap price, so America can make more money.

You didn't read him carefully: he informed us non informed that it's that evil Hugh to blame. It was him that ordered China to break the rules and western tycoons to sell them our jobs! That evil Hugh! Just looking at him makes me shudder.

They toork our jerbs!

1) Japan might have some. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14009910

2) Some of you need to think more. FACT: America only beatup on countries that can't hit back. Even tiny N.Korea would be a total disaster if attacked by the US, let alone more a far powerful China.

3) The problem with being on top (as the US ) is that you have so much more to loose, so much further to fall.

4) Listen to the quiet minority. In the fifties the US built up the USSR as being far more powerful than it was. The Russians also "fooled" the US into thinking there was a "missile gap" in their (Russia's) favour.
The quiet minority said no, the US is far more powerful. They were right.

Now the general concensus is that China is far weaker than it is, while the quiet intelligence minority is saying that China is far more powerful than it claim to be and what most americans think.

Recently they admitted to having 3000 mile nuclear underground tunnel when pushed by the west.
To the world the Chinese have 300 nukes with about 24 ICBMs, to the quiet minority it is more like 3000 with 900 ICBMs.

I will always back the US to win an all out war with China but it would be a very hollow victory.
Who will want to live in the US afterwards? A highly radiactive zone.

All over Rare Earth Minerals that can be found in your own country. Gimme a break.

"China produces almost all of the world’s rare earth minerals, but it’s not keen on selling them to other nations. Export restrictions keep most of the valuable metals in the country. According to the U.S., these restrictions unfairly allow China to hoard the minerals for its own use."

This article makes little sense to me. First and for most, I didn't read it all the way, because it wasn't making much sense. It says minerals, but the only rare thing they talk about is the Lithium for batteries used in Hybrids and electronics. It talks about "China producing them." China can't produce minerals, it either has large deposits or it doesn't. If they said that China refine the lithium, then I would better understand it.

Second If China has these large deposits of "Minerals" then no one in the world can force them to mine their own soil for them, but it doesn't make sense because as I know it, most of the lithium found has been coming from South American and they recently found a large deposit in Afghanistan. (May give a hint on why we are there)

Third,.. I don't have one. I just wanted to give my two cents, since many people here probably don't know anything and just going by what the article says.

I only know this much from what I've read and listen to in the news, so when I hear this. It strikes me as very odd because I never knew that China had large deposits of lithium. And as I know it, this is really all the rare "minerals" that matter to other countries. I can't think of anything else in a Hybrid or an Iphone that can't be mined or collected from other regions of the planet. I knew from the start that China had a large amount of natural resources and a good variety, but this article makes it sound very extreme.

Why are people against the success of China? China was fortunate to have the majority of Rare Earth. No foreign nation has the right to force China to hand over its raw materials to multinational/foreign interests.

then they should leave the wto

china is a lot of "we wish to profit" but not so much "we have to give as well"