subject: What Role Does Obama Play In Black Ops 2 [print this page] Most of us have seen the movie series --Black Ops. The coming one Black Ops 2 is going to tell a plot to the spectators, whose main thread has something to do with the US President Barack Obama. Just as what Colorado Republican congressman Mike Coffman manages to do, a popular video game, US President Barack Obama and rare earth mining have been tied together. This years offering offers a plot focused on rare earth materials and a cold war developing between the United States and China over access to these critical materials. Though the kinetic pace of the action is pure Hollywood, the competition between the countries for these critical materials is anything but fiction.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is set to break sales records when it goes on sale later this year and the latest installment of the war game features a storyline where America is pitted against China over the supply of rare earth elements.
It is recorded that China mines roughly 95% of the world's rare earths, used in critical components of the automotive, high tech, green energy and defence industries. In this game, the two protagonists China and the U.S. stand their own point of view. Especially the Obama Administration, though he has a lot of ways to win in this video game, his neglecting proven mining and development strategies that could develop a domestic rare earth supply are about to win in the real world is still suspectable. The frame of this neglectful rare earth policy have become clear through the attitude of theDepartment of Defense and the widely announced recent World Trade Organization case. While Obama's relationship with the resource sector is not a happy one vide the scraps with the coal lobby, oil pipelines and the uranium mining( ore beneficiation ) ban weak links in the rare earth supply chain can hardly be blamed on his administration.
What a disappointment to the administration that less than six months later the Defense Department reversed course and concluded that rare earths are not uniquely important. And it also cited its ability to stake priority claims under Title I of the Defense Production Act, effectively noting that it could seize material from commercial users to meet its needs.
