Philippines becoming more like India, bragging about everything but unable to do anything

So many countries are now talking about their rare earth resources and how it will change the global landscape. The Philippines is currently the talk of the town with its discovery of rare earth resources inside the country. China must be rattled, right? Truth be told, rare earth raw materials are plentiful, not at all rare. What is really rare is the processing logistics needed to make them into useful elements. And who has the world's largest processing logistics for all rare earth elements? China of course and no escaping from it.

It is fruitless to talk of how much rare earth raw materials a country has under its feet when there has to be a need to build up the mining and processing logistics that will take decades to come to fruition. Even the USA needs China to do the refining for its rare earth raw materials, so what is the hullaballoo all about? All that talk about mining rare earth under the sea, on the moon and on Mars are just delusional science fiction. With rare earth in abundance in Australia, Vietnam, Mongolia among others, why go to such extreme to mine them and at what costs? Who in the end is going to refine them, which against points to China. Let us not be delusional and swallow all the propaganda that solves nothing. It all boils down to doing it from start to finish to be effective, which no country has the logistical capacity to undertake. Keep the rare earth dream going.


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