Rare Earth : the new Oil ? A tug-of-war battle between China and Japan (Les Terres Rares : le nouvel Or noir ? Tensions entre la Chine et le Japon au cœur d’une diplomatie de la ressource)
» THEY ARE MAKING US look like fools ! » thundered the president of the United States in Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne sequel entitled The Bourne Dominion published in 2011 after his newly minted secretary of defense told him that « the Chinese have been ahead of us for years. They have begun to build nuclear reactors in order to wean themselves off oil and coal and now it turns out they own ninety-six percent of the world’s production of rare…