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    1 year ago

    The article doesn’t say this so I’m not sure that this is Malaysia’s plan, but usually with things like this the idea is specifically to limit export of the raw materials only in order to get international companies to set up manufacturing in your country. Zimbabwe recently-ish banned lithium ore exports, for example, with the hope of getting the more lucrative industry of processing the ore in to usable lithium in to the country instead