The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths.” With those lines, Deng Xiaoping authored a new age of geopolitical supremacy one measured not in terms of barrels of crude, but in the metallic ...

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Move beyond lithium and its dominance in semiconductors. There exists a group of 17 other metals with mostly ...

Automakers are having to find ways to work around the cutback, such as using older technology that is more costly and less ...

Beijing is more openly leveraging its control over rare earths, using them both as a stick to pressure geostrategic rivals ...

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Even as China signals it may issue more export permits for Europe and the United States, its tight grip on rare earth metals ...

China’s dominance over critical minerals in global supply chains was a powerful bargaining chip in trade talks between Beijing and Washington that concluded with both sides saying they have a ...

Beijing’s export controls on critical magnets highlight its leverage in trade talks as US automakers and defence companies ...

China tightens its grip on global rare earth supply by curbing exports of key minerals, raising alarms among automakers and ...

Now, in the hillsides of Shan state in eastern Myanmar, Chinese miners are opening new deposits for extraction.

A Chinese-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, as Beijing moves to secure control of the ...