Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

While rare earth mineral trading generates modest revenue, their strategic value far outweighs market price as governments ...

The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s ...

Explore how India's e-waste recycling industry is poised to challenge China's dominance in the rare earths market, featuring ...

A Guardian dispatch last week from Baotou, China’s rare earth capital, found evidence of toxic ponds, poisoned soil and ...

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such ...

America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth ...

The rational response to China’s challenge would be, “back to the future,” by defeating Trump’s drill-baby-drill agenda and ...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee heard testimony on security risks as the U.S. remains 100% import reliant on nearly a quarter of 50 critical minerals dominated by China.

For example, Australia's rare earth separation facilities can meet only 30 percent of Japan's domestic demand, and Japan still mainly relies on China with the remaining. Therefore, the US is forming ...

The Australian Strategic Institute described this moment as “a once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity.” In the mid-20th ...

When it comes to energy planning, China and the U.S. are moving in opposite directions. As the New York Times reported on ...