20 years ago, China’s Deng Xiao Peng said that “Saudi Arabia has oil, but China has rare earths.”  Few paid attention at the time, but today, Deng’s dictum is beginning to ring alarm bells in the world’s industrialized nations.  This brief video report from EnergyNow underlines the geo-politics of renewable energy, and the dangers of trading our reliance on foreign oil for a new — and needless — reliance on foreign metals.