Beijing Counters Washington
Various rare earths piled to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Sept. 5, 2010 (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Various rare earths piled to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Sept. 5, 2010 (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Workers producing LED chips at a factory in Huaian, in China's eastern Jiangsu province, on June 16, 2020. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping attends the opening of the first session of the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing on March 5, 2023. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Report: Electric Vehicle Supply Chain Marked by Human Rights Abuses, Environmental Damage The Business and Human Rights Resource Center (BHRRC), a human rights advocacy group based in London with an…
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a press conference next to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe Biden during the G-7 Summit at Elmau Castle, southern Germany, on…
Albemarle Corporation spokesman Marcelo Valdebenito holds a bottle of processed lithium carbonate at a lithium mine in Salar de Atacama, Chile on Aug. 24, 2022. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Sweden and Turkey Find Massive Rare Earth Deposits, Threatening China Sweden and Turkey announced large discoveries of rare earth minerals this month. Sweden’s discovery in particular could be a major…
Report: U.S. Considers Funding Canadian Mining Projects to Compete with China The U.S. government is reportedly turning to Canadian mining operations in a bid to break China’s stranglehold on vital…
China Gloats F-35 Waiver Exposes U.S. ‘Dependence on Chinese Rare-Earth Products’ China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday gloated that a waiver from the U.S. government to take delivery on F-35…
A loader shifts soil containing rare earth minerals to be loaded at a port in Lianyungang, in China's Jiangsu Province, for export to Japan. China controls the world’s supply of…