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Podcast | China explores its key points of trade leverage: Rare earth export control updates + sanctions threats

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In this week’s podcast, Trivium Co-founder Andrew Polk is joined by Trivium’s head of critical mineral and supply chain research, Cory Combs, to address the mounting confusion over whether and how China will ease off on its rare earth export curbs.
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