Comments on: China’s Rare Earth Trap: How the 15th Five-Year Plan Weaponizes the Green Transition https://rareearthexchanges.com/news/chinas-rare-earth-trap-how-the-15th-five-year-plan-weaponizes-the-green-transition/ Rare Earth Insights & Industry News Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: michael durack https://rareearthexchanges.com/news/chinas-rare-earth-trap-how-the-15th-five-year-plan-weaponizes-the-green-transition/#comment-434 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:45:58 +0000 https://vpzajoti4c.onrocket.site/news/chinas-rare-earth-trap-how-the-15th-five-year-plan-weaponizes-the-green-transition/#comment-434 China can be likened to a successfull drug dealer where his customers are addicted and he has a monopoly on the drug. I am not saying that what they have done is morally wrong as may be the case with drug dealing but a very workablke strategy. What I find a little incongrous is that not only did they addict the West to consumption of this drug but they have also convinced the addicts that there is no other alternate drug that will give the same high at least with respect to electric motors and generators. China leads the world in the design of electric motors for EVs and generators for wind turbines. They all use rare earths and most need heavy rare earths. Western managment use these designs as industry bench marks and demand that their engineers don’t think out of the box using an obvious altermnative being ferrite. The only down side using ferrite is that the engineers must apply intellectual effort that is not needed if you simply follow China, and intellectual effort is not a salable comodity in most Western organizations. China has not rolled out high power ferrite motor or generator designs because they would become a competing drug that they don’t control.

]]> By: David Bryan https://rareearthexchanges.com/news/chinas-rare-earth-trap-how-the-15th-five-year-plan-weaponizes-the-green-transition/#comment-430 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:57:25 +0000 https://vpzajoti4c.onrocket.site/news/chinas-rare-earth-trap-how-the-15th-five-year-plan-weaponizes-the-green-transition/#comment-430 This is beyond insidious, the only this can be viewed in, this got to be long on investment strategies, if we take a short term view and expect immediate returns, inflation, national debt, is going to be hugely problematic, given shear scale and global reach of the problem, and what and who will have to make to the biggest sacrifice to level this giant oversight of global proportion up to a even level of competition.

Scary implications of what happens next, the potential for short term global recession with only one winner, China, will be to much to bare for the west, where the regional and national division are exposed for all to see, across all political spectrums, from the green lobby, the far-right, far-left and centre ground politics, this a wake up call you they didn’t want.

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