Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 7 (ANI): Air Marshal M Matheswaran (Retd), former Deputy Chief of the Indian Integrated Defence Staff, on Friday said that India will have to work with friendly countries for the success in the field of rare-earth materials.

However, the founder-chairman of The Peninsula Foundation emphasised that the country needs to develop capabilities "much more than what we have right now."

Matheswaran said, "Right now, we've just realised that we need to create capabilities much more than what we have right now, right? So there is a very big mountain to climb. So let's focus on that first, rather than focusing on we'll become rare earths leader later. We can see that later."

"In terms of partnership, yes, we have to work with friends. Japan, Australia, Singap

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