The CCP seeks trade leverage with tighter rare earth export rules, but risks accelerating Western supply chains that could erode Beijing’s long-held monopoly.
Exports made up one-third of China’s economic growth last year. Export numbers are hard for the regime to forge as they have to match other countries’ imports.
‘Let this case be a warning to foreign money launderers and drug traffickers,’ Russ Ferguson, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, said.
‘We decided to disclose his identity in hopes that his bravery will not be forgotten and that more people could rally behind him,’ said a human rights activist.
Miao Hua, who oversaw the entire military’s loyalty to the CCP for seven years as an ally of Xi Jinping, has been expelled from the rubber-stamped legislature.