Biden Kills Project to End China’s Control Over Rare Earth Mineral Industry

The United States needs 10 times the amount of rare earth metals it currently has to meet Joe Biden’s electric vehicle goals, yet he does not want these minerals to be mined domestically.

The Ambler Access Road project would connect a mining district in Alaska to the Dalton Highway that runs through the middle of the state. This would provide the U.S. with a steady domestic supply of copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver and cobalt. Yet the Biden administration is expected to deny approval of this road.

Foreign reliance: President Donald Trump approved the permit to build the Ambler Access Road in 2020, and Alaska’s congressional delegation supports the project.

Yet Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has argued that Trump-era environmental studies were inadequate. So Biden is likely to cancel the project, forcing the U.S. to continue to rely on China to provide minerals for its green agenda.

China accounts for approximately 60 percent of worldwide rare earth mineral production and 85 percent of worldwide rare earth mineral processing capacity. The fact that Biden wants to phase out fossil fuel-powered vehicles and domestic rare earth mining is a big win for Communist China.

Communist party: In 2021, John Bachtell wrote a gushing piece in the Communist Party usa publication People’s World about how Secretary Haaland was on track to make history as America’s first Native American cabinet secretary. But he ignored the role Communist Party member Judith LeBlanc played in pressuring Biden to nominate Haaland. So Secretary Haaland enacting policies that help China might not be coincidence.

China class: Radical Democrats often pretend like they are concerned about the environment, yet many of their “green” policies are designed to help Communist China.

Journalist Lee Smith wrote in his September 2020 editorial “America’s China Class Launches a New War Against Trump”:

The central pillar of the corrupt new order is the American elite’s relationship with China. … By shipping America’s manufacturing base off to China, they seized a business opportunity the likes of which had never been seen before—an enormous captive labor force controlled by an authoritarian regime that guaranteed the steady production of goods at a fraction of what it would cost at home.

Learn more: Read “Minerals: Crumbling Bedrock of U.S. Security.”