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　　According to Bloomberg"s Friday report, the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro claimed in an interview with The Mishal Husain Show that American industrial breakthroughs would boost domestic production and "end China"s market dominance in the rare earths market." He also distorted China"s lawful resource management, asserting that US innovation would "quickly wipe away" what he alleged as "China"s weaponization."

　　Chinese experts dismissed the remarks as "highly unprofessional and nonsensical," saying that labeling objectively existing natural resources such as rare earths as a "monopoly" is fundamentally flawed. They stressed that China"s export management of rare earths is based on law not targeted at any specific country, nor does it constitute so-called "economic coercion."

　　During the interview, Navarro even misrepresented China as threatening to "take away" critical minerals from Europe, India and the United States if its actions were challenged.

　　"For decades, China"s exports and supply of rare earths have not been a source of international controversy. The real issue lies not with the resources themselves, but with certain countries injecting Cold War-era thinking and geopolitical calculations into global supply chains, politicizing and fragmenting what had been a highly integrated rare-earth supply system and thereby fueling tensions," He Weiwen, a senior fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, told the Global Times on Friday.

　　Rare earths are naturally occurring resources rather than man-made products, He Weiwen noted, adding that their development and utilization involve capital-intensive, high-barrier processes such as mining, smelting and refining, and they are, in essence, industrial resources shared by humanity as a whole.