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2009 ended with an unproductive US-皇冠体育app standoff at the Copenhagen Climate Summit and high-level tensions have developed over 皇冠体育app's rapidly scaled-up production and global sales of renewable energy technology - specifically solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries for the burgeoning electric vehicle markets - and 皇冠体育app's dominance in the production of rare earth elements for advanced electronics.

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