A man displays an iPhone. As resource-hungry China scours the ...

A man displays an iPhone. As resource-hungry China scours the ...
AFP/File
Sun Nov 15, 7:27 PM ET

A man displays an iPhone. As resource-hungry China scours the world for crude oil and natural gas supplies, it has managed to corner the global market for a group of obscure metals used to make iPods, wind farms and electric cars.

(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)

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