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Beijing’s stricter scrutiny of dual-use exports to Japan already hitting rare earths

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Beijing is choking off Japanese firms' access to key rare earth elements (REEs). That's per a January 8 Wall Street Journal report citing two Chinese exporters of heavy REEs and magnets, plus a third who confirmed review of export license applications for Japanese customers have effectively been "h...