Torbjørn Færøvik: China's New Gold Will Tame the Mighty and the Small

Eight hundred years ago, Genghis Khan’s horses galloped across the plains of Inner Mongolia. Today, they might risk disappearing into an unimaginably vast hole. Bayan Obo is the world’s largest rare earth mine. Here, China extracts its new gold—a weapon designed to tame powerful enemies and force them to make peace. The Bayan Obo mine is an open-pit operation where thousands of workers labor