The Magnet Rant I Didn’t Know I Had in Me

How Trump’s chaos made me stumble into China’s rare earth strategy

Trump said something about magnets a few weeks back. Or maybe it was a couple of months ago. You never really know with him because he talks like a shotgun blast, random and jarring. You try to keep up, especially if you’re someone who actually wants to understand the deeper stuff underneath the noise.

I heard the magnet thing, as usual, it sounded like …