Analysis Of The Conflicts On Trade Of Rare Metals Between Japan And China

since has entered for the 21^st century. The bilateral economic and trade cooperation of Sino-Japanese has developed rapidly, which has a good future and mutual benefit. in these trades ,the trade of rare metals accounts for a important and large proportion.After World War II .with the development of high-tech, rare metals are widely used in aerospace, electronics, communicative information, vehicle industries and defense industries. If without rare metals ,the development of these industries will not continue for a long time. because of the importance of rare metals ,the rare metals have become the focus of great power's reserve targets as oils.In addition, most of them are distributed in our country, the former Soviet Union and some countries in Africa .and which have the characteristics of non-renewable. Therefore, since 2005, China has adjusted the export policy on rare metals in order to protect domestic rare metals resources, which caused dissatisfaction in Japan. Japanese government emphasizes on the "China threat" on rare metals and accused China of trade protection. Minister of Economy, AkiraAmari , Japan's trade minister urged China not to put the squeeze on Tokyo and other buyers of its rare metals in November, 2007, leading to rare metals trade conflict.Because the Research and use of rare metals are important and relate closely to countries' high tech and national defense industries development .so ,at the beginning, the rare metals trade conflict is not only Including the resources security but also involving national international competitiveness and the national security, etc. thus the essence of Sino-Japanese rare metals conflict is national strategy Competition. If the conflict cannot be solved appropriately , which will affect the development of Sino-Japanese politics and economic relationships in the long run. So the conflict about China and Japan has the political reason and a long-term characteristic. Then, Research the conflict how to influence both countries politics and economics has a bigger practical significance.