China cuts rare earth minerals export quotas

China produces about 97 percent of rare earth minerals used worldwide in high-technology..
China slashed the export quota by 40 percent in 2010.
The export restraints has inflamed trade
ties with the U.S.,E.U.and Japan in particular

The average comatose American will not see the seriousness of this move, probably won't even hear about it on the news but they will hear about Elton's new baby. 
Poor child. 

The China squeeze play is making the globalist Washington idiots who shipped all our US factories to China and India nervous.
To hell in a hand basket,we're lucky if we can still produce toothpicks. Do we even ?

War's have begun for much less than this.
Wasn't the halt of US steel exports to Japan the catalyst that led to Pearl Harbor ?