BEIJING (Reuters) - China is well within its rights, legally and morally, to limit rare earth exports, argued an article in Chinese state media on Thursday, days after the World Trade Organization ruled against China on its curbs of raw materials exports.
The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party, said claims by countries that China's export curbs on the minerals threatened their economic and national security were "groundless."
"It's not that other countries don't have their own supplies, it is just that they have hidden them away," it said.
