can't take it from asia and the middle east anymore.

The minerals aren't the bottleneck; the refining technology is. And that is in China, not Latin America.

Probably rare earth should be replaced with important elements and materials for data centers. Germanium is probably the most important followed by gold, lithium, gallium, indium, niobium, molybdenum, helium, floride, oil. I think that these should be used as a form of communication between countries.