39 the national bureau of asian research nbr special report #31 | september 2011 YUFAN HAO is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Macau. He can be reached at <yhao@umac.mo>. WEIHUA LIU is a PhD candidate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Macau and a Lecturer at Xi’an International Studies University. Weihua can be reached at <a_s_lewis@hotmail.com>. Rare Earth Minerals and Commodity Resource Nationalism Yufan Hao and Weihua Liu