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In March of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the White House to discuss U.S.-Japan cooperation in developing deep-sea rare earths off Minami-Tori Island in Japan, in order to break the Chinese Communist Party's global monopoly and control over rare earths.
In the abyss of the Pacific, an alliance is formed to reshape the global balance of technologies. A mine project at unprecedented depth, led by Washington and Tokyo, aims directly at Beijing's hegemony on the most critical resources of our time.