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 ...

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

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

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

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China's dominance in rare earth minerals, particularly samarium, poses a significant challenge to the US and its allies in ...

Rare earths, particularly the small but powerful magnets made from them, are essential to countless high-tech applications.

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 ...

China's recent announcement of new regulations to strengthen export control measures on certain rare earth-related items is a measure driven by its domestic industrial sustainable development needs.

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