Apparently India has been trying to forge documents to get rare earth from China then secretly reselling them to the US and the west despite a huge export control. This is in line with India's behavior where it resold Russian oil to Europe to bypass sanctions. As a result, this is one of the reasons, China is cracking down on rare earths to India and choking its automobile industry. Apparently that industry is just a smuggling front. I noticed this is not reported in English news and you would not know this if you only search in English. It really shows how worthless English language websites are these days when it comes to China. You would think India is some victim when in reality it deserves every bit of pain it gets.
And India being reactive instead of proactive, said it will try to create its own rare earth program to reduce reliance on China. Here's the thing though, it took China 30 years to build this up. India really thinks it can do this stuff overnight. I always wondered why Jai Hinds keep talking about how India and its mentality is forward thinking when it seems they are more like laggards who just want copy whatever China does.
