The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...

China’s quiet release of rare earth quotas is fresh proof that President Trump’s push for American independence on the vital ...

However, this “trump card” did not come into China’s possession overnight. Behind its global dominance in rare earth exports ...

China has quietly issued its first 2025 rare earth mining and smelting quotas without the typical public statement, sources ...

The U.S. and China, two of the world’s largest economies, broke new territory in trade negotiations over rare earth elements.

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Following talks with the US thought to include reductions in critical mineral export restrictions, China reports 60 per cent ...

China has quietly issued its first rare earth mining and smelting quotas for 2025, marking a shift from its usual public ...

Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China October 31, 2010. Picture taken October 31, 2010.

How China’s new rare-earth export controls target the Pentagon—and the world The licensing system replaces a cruder, less flexible means of economic leverage. Tye Graham and Peter W. Singer ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has signalled for more than 15 years that it was looking to weaponise areas of the global supply chain, a strategy modelled on longstanding American export controls ...

China’s exports of rare-earth magnets to the United States in June surged more than six times from May levels, following ...