Their are 3 countries with rare earth minerals

There are more, and I don’t know any specific REM primarily in those three countries. But yeah, they’re three of the more important ones, alongside USA, India, Brazil, Russia and Paraguay.

Most of out trade is with China so us cutting us off has very little impact on our trade.

I think ‘very little’ is exaggerating (apparently 11% of imports and 5% of exports), but yep, we have other options if push comes to shove.

+1 for the soft power tools being their benefit rather than ours. +1 for us hosting critical intel bases.