Japan and China to the back burnerWashington has too many middle east politcal transitions to manage on it's plate.
Japan and Natural Gas/ Rare Earths issue with China will have to wait.
Harper going to Washington next week will be to counter the latest "northern border is a problem" for terrorists to enter through the unprotected frontier and to try to tell Obama that Tar sands oil is clean and abundant and reliable when the threat of the Seuz canal being closed for the revolution duration looms, increasing shipping costs of crude.
The rise in REMX is due to forseeable delays in the diplomacy needed over the East China Sea natural gas field dispute and therefore the embargo on Rare earth shipments to Japan will carry on.