Beijing banned shipments of important supplies to 14 companies on the cutting edge of chemicals processing, electric motors ...

China’s most effective weapon in the rare earth war wasn’t a missile, a tariff, or a trade embargo. It was a price tag. For more than two decades, Beijing has used a remarkably simple strategy to ...

Escalating Chinese export controls are driving a major push to establish a secure North American rare earth supply chain from ...

The move targets two U.S. manufacturers at the center of the Trump administration’s effort to rebuild the domestic supply chain for critical magnets. By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher has covered the ...

June 1 (Reuters) - Every year, several hundred young adults head to the steppes of northern China to learn about rare earths at schools like the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology.

China’s April 2025 export restrictions on heavy rare earths and permanent magnets triggered rapid disruptions across allied defense and industrial supply chains, exposing the fragility of a system ...

China’s dominance in both rare earth elements production and reserves has caused problems in the past. Rare earths prices surged when the country cut exports in 2010, resulting in an ongoing rush to ...

Rare earth mining projects outside China face significant economic challenges due to geological differences that make extraction and refining more expensive than Chinese operations, industry experts ...

China has increasingly incorporated critical minerals and rare earth export controls into its geopolitical coercion toolkit, and portrayed its dominant position in rare earth supply chains as a ...

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Every year, several hundred young adults head to the steppes of northern China to learn about rare earths at schools like the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology. After completing ...