BEIJING :China, the world's top processor of rare earths, banned the export of technology to extract and separate the critical materials on Thursday, the country's latest step to protect its dominance over several strategic metals.Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into
      • carl_marks_1312 [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        China has ranked first in the share of published papers since 2017, the top 10% most-cited papers since 2018 and the top 1% since 2019.

        Moving the goalposts as a coping mechanism

        https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2023/article_0013.html

        fuck interlectual property in general, so even if China did steal IP from other countries (it didn't), I'd respect them even more