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Still, “Beijing’s dominance in both mining and refining these elements gives it the sort of asymmetric leverage that once belonged to OPEC,” said Innes.

The billboard campaign represents an asymmetric marketing battle between two companies of vastly different sizes.

"Iran has a high appetite for risk when conducting offensive activity and its intelligence services are ferociously well-resourced with significant areas of asymmetric strength."

Mr Ackman said the American leader now had "an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country".

Quantum computers capable of breaking asymmetric encryption are thought to be years away.