Make China Pay for Pulling the Rare Earth Card

摘要

In May 2014, then-Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin threatened to cut off the supply of Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines to the United States as the two great powers tussled diplomatically about the invasion of Ukraine. "Wait! What?" said hundreds of members of Congress. "We depend on Russia for national security launch rocket engines?" Most of them didn't have a clue, but they readily approved funding for the U.S. industrial base to develop its own rockets, which eventually will mean a loss of jobs and trade for Russia.