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China’s attempt to strangle the global show of rare heavy Earth elements was about to reach the wall. The Vietnamese entrepreneur Low was that we had lined up in support for technology that could break Beijing’s suffocating on the critical metals behind everything from smartphones to missile guidance systems.

Twan and his family had fled Vietnam for the United States to escape from Beijing’s grip tightening Hanoi, as the Chinese Communist Party practiced a major impact on home governance.

In July 2023, the Technology Transfer Agreement, which was seen by the Fox News Digital, signed to bring the rare heavy land separation technology that he was using in his company in Vietnam, Vietnam Nader Earth (VTRE) to VTRU Corporation, a company registered in Nevada. VTRE has also signed a series of Memorandum Memorandum (MO) with Western companies.

A source familiar with the earth industry said, “He had a bad feeling of safety about being in Vietnam. He was determined to transfer his technology to the United States as soon as possible.”

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At that time, the world was totally dependent on Chinese companies to separate the rare heavy ground minerals.

“China is really over 20 years old to build this hegemony,” said Grassillin Baskran, director of the critical metal security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Although companies such as MEDSS and Lynas that are based in Australia are in the process of developing its separation technologies, China still controls up to 90 % of the rare land separation, capture capacity and more than half of the mining productions.

In October 2023, Twan, who was staying in the United States and the Green Card in the process of becoming a citizen, returned to his office in Hanoi when the Vietnamese authorities raided the building and seized all laptops and records. Seventeen employees were arrested, according to the American Tuan business partner, Richard Dunham, all of them except for one, DO Hanh Huong, Tuan and Coo’s sister for VTRE, has since been released.

The arrest came shortly after President Joe Biden Vietnam’s visit and signed cooperation agreements on rare land minerals.

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In December, China banned the extraction of rare land and separation, while the industry saw another effort to maintain its monopoly in the market.

“When China has placed these restrictions, it really made countries like the United States and Australia realize that they had no technical knowledge to do this themselves,” Paskran said.

“The process itself itself is very intense and very toxic,” said Josh Birnabum, a mineral expert at the Democrats Defense Foundation, adding that China surrounded the market through government subsidies and inflating environmental concerns.

While the United States has one rare ground mine, the Meplay Mounty Corridor, ”until this year, the company was exporting that rare land to China for the sake of separation. The trade war and export controls that followed the United States pushed its rare land until the separation capacity reached home.

Twan was accused of falsifying a value -added tax receipt during rare land circulation with the Tae Tong Group, which runs a mine in the Northern Yen Bay province.

Xenotime raw (Getty Images)

VTRE in partnership with Australian Australian Mining Companies for Strategic Materials and Blackstone Mineraals Ltd. Tuan and Dunham, officials from Nevada and the Ministry of Energy also met to discuss the plans of transferring separation technology to the United States through VTRE. Both were “enthusiastic” about the proposal, which eventually signed the transportation agreement, according to Danham.

The arrest also came when Vietnam prepared the auction of the Dong Puau mine. VTRE, with the support of Western partners, was the only qualified bidder, according to Danham.

This year, Twan admitted that he was guilty in exchange for a lighter penalty. He will spend 16 years in prison with a fine of $ 10 million, but his advocates say he is “coercion.” Hung was sentenced to six years in prison.

“We believe that these charges that will be manipulated, are established by representatives of the Vietnamese state who have restored themselves with China,” Dunham said. “He was tortured to obtain guilt.”

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Tuwan preachers say that the company that was buying raw from, Thai Duong, refused to provide bills at the actual rate that VTRE pays against Ore. She only provided bills that she claimed was selling raw in a lower rate, reducing his taxable income.

According to Dunham, Thai Duong rejected the release of bills that reflect the actual sale price of VTRE, and claims to avoid environmental income taxes, natural resources, companies income, and the obligations that fell on Thai, not tuan.

Twan faced an option: accepting bills of low rates, and tax contradictions formed with his own money or allowing the state -funded mineral project, and thus his work, to collapse in Dunham.

Although Twan was convicted of criminal charges, Dunham said that the violation of the accounting regulations lacks evidence of a criminal intention.

“Even if he was guilty of an accounting case, this is not something responsible for what they are trying to do. There was no place in Vietnam at any time of the ruling. He has not heard of it.

“He is the only person outside China who has a rare Earth company completely integrated from mining to minerals; in other words, from drilling it from the ground to manufacturing magnets.”

China dominates the rare global land market. (Reuters)

Twan was also convicted of smuggling rare ground materials, but customs documents show a clearance of 63 charges of rare Earth oxide mixtures under the 2846 tax law, which corresponds to rare ground vehicles. The court has offended the classification of exports under the Tax Law 2530 (raw crude), to claim that it was illegal, according to Danham.

The Vietnamese Ministry’s Ministry of Security investigated that customs staff who signed the export of 63 export to the compliance of VTRE Tuan.

China’s campaign has since just accelerated. Metal experts have been ordered to deliver their passports to prevent them from sharing any technology outside the country. Beijing has stressed the controls on rare land exports, which raised great concerns within the American defense industry. While China allowed them to flow again during commercial negotiations with the Trump administration, it remains banned for defense purposes.

According to Dunham, VTRE has developed technology to produce a rare heavy floor oxides of Xenotime, Monazite, and Ion-Arvory at 95 % through the solvent extraction system. This technology was able to treat various raw types and recycle NDFEB.

The requests for help from the United States government were not fruitful, according to the preachers of Twan.

Tuan is mainly cut off from his family and lawyer. Family members have seen about five times since his arrest two years ago.

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“We are very concerned about his physical and mental well -being,” the source said. “It is mentally flexible. He continues to believe that the truth will appear in the end.”

Fox News Digital has contacted the White House, the Foreign Ministry, the Chinese embassy and the Vietnamese Embassy for comment.