China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

Due to China's export curbs on rare earth magnets, Indian automakers are requesting temporary relaxations of localization ...

Only a few years ago, the Biden administration declared export controls a “new strategic asset” to help the US maintain “as ...

In first half of 2025, exports reach US$6.7 million, which analysts view as sign of China’s bid to diversify access to ...

This comes after China had earlier in April imposed tighter export controls on rare earth magnets — critical components for ...

Biden saw export controls as a “strategic asset” to keep the U.S. ahead of China in tech, but Trump is now scrapping that ...

The moves by Apple and the Pentagon are part of a broader U.S. push to nearshore rare earth supply chains. Earlier this year, ...

Japan and the European Union will consider joint public-private partnerships as they look to reduce their reliance on China in areas such as the procurement of rare earths, the Nikkei newspaper ...

President Donald Trump has dialed down his confrontational tone with China in an effort to secure a summit with counterpart Xi Jinping and a trade deal with the world’s second-largest economy, people ...

The money will allow the business, with operations including a mine in California and a factory in Texas, to dramatically ...

China has imposed export controls on two items on which it holds an almost complete global monopoly: the world’s currently ...