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Those include electric-vehicle batteries, artificial-intelligence servers, wind turbines and jet fighters — and Beijing “knows this chokepoint gives it short-term bargaining power.”

These magnets would then be used in high-tech applications such as motors for electric vehicles, wind turbines and robotics.

Rare-earth materials mainly end up in magnets that are critical for electric vehicles, wind turbines, fighter jets, and a host of other products.

The project at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm is the first of its kind, with 75,000 specially designed "reef cubes" placed at the bottom of a single turbine.

Neodymium and dysprosium, for example, allow the fabrication of almost permanent, super-strong magnets that require little maintenance -- making viable the placement of ocean wind turbines to generate electricity far from the coastline.