https://www.ft.com/content/ebd3244a-9120-4773-b55f-41df77f60c93>Japan is months from running out of yttrium as China squeezes supply, and yttrium oxide prices outside China have risen 179-fold in two years, the Financial Times reports.>Yttrium oxide costs $1,150 per kilogram outside China, compared with $9 inside it.>Shortages could emerge as early as the end of this year unless Beijing changes tack or Western allies find substitutes or build additional stockpiles.>Tokyo has asked the US to push China to ease its rare earth export controls.>Yttrium is used to coat engines and the plasma-etching chambers used to make chips, while US defence supply chains rely on Japanese components that contain it.How to unfuck this situation?
>>546258124
chink anons, any of you want to hook me up with some yttrium?
japan got tricked into being a western dog thinking daddy usa will back them up lol
>>546258449China is not changing their policy back, finding substitute is impossible in a short term.>askedwhat are they offering? lol, clowns
>>546258449>Oh no, we are running out of rare earth!Just a bait to get chink idiots drunk with tired rare earth story. - Australia's Lynas Rare Earths is mining and separating Yttrium at its Mt. Weld mine in Western Australia, and plans to begin full-scale exports to Japan in 2027.
>>546258808>First production of yttrium by Australia's Lynas Rare Earths is guided for early calendar 2028 as part of its heavy rare-earth separation expansion at the Lynas Advanced Materials Plant in Gebeng, Malaysia.>already pushed back to 2028OHNONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
>>546258449China should be raped and gaped and ganged up on and ruined for being this stingy.
It was a total nothing burger with Tungsten (and the Naphtha shortage too). Our goverment does this "Shortage alert" on purpose for Japanese invovled players to raise awareness of raw materials and their source areas. It accelerates securing what they need. Sumitomo already established Tungsten recycle business in 2011, and they succesfully stepped up the game this year, all thanks to the "Tungsten shortage alert".
>>546258449>How to unfuck this situation?Asteroid mining.
>>546258754>trickedMore like got brought to heel like dogs.
>>546259819>nothing burger>supply only last for monthsPick one. Also, Tungsten isn't even a rare metal. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Supply Chain is like Russian matryoshka. It's always nested structure. Players in upstream have a better grasp of materials, while players in downstream have a weak grasp of them. Apple execs in California probably don't even know where iPhone cover ink comes from. (It's manufactured and supplied by Seiko Advance, Japanese men's company.)
>Tokyo has asked the US to push China to ease its rare earth export controls.I don't think those mutts are in any position to bully China.
>>546258449Japan is going to die in front of our eyes within the decade. Sad times.Oh well, guess we'll just enjoy the cheap and abundant japanese whores who'll come to our countries to sell their pussies for cheap.
