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19 articles matching the search query.
Australia Plans Rare Earths Boost to Challenge China Dominance
Australia is set to announce $175 million for projects, including a new battery material refinery hub, to combat China’s rare earth dominance.
Japan is defending its rare earth industry from foreign takeovers
It's set to designate sectors related to critical metals, including rare earths, as key to national security and subject to stringent protections.
Export control law to affect rare earths, UAVs
A new Chinese law that takes effect on Tuesday will restrict exports of controlled items, which experts said will increase market supply volatility of some products and technologies, like rare earths and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), although a plunge in exports is unlikely in the near term.
China’s Greenland Ambitions Run Into Local Politics, U.S. Influence
China’s ambitions for a massive rare-earth mining project in Greenland have run into a maelstrom of local politics in a part of the world the U.S. considers vital to its national security.
China says domestic competition hurting rare earth prices
China's rare earths, a group of 17 minerals used in military equipment and consumer electronics, are being undersold due to "vicious competition" domestically and face low resource utilisation, the country's industry minister said on Monday.
US invests US$12.7 million in rare earth producers to reduce reliance on China
Bulk of funding goes to MP Materials, which owns the world’s largest rare earth mine outside China.
China passes export control law with potential for rare-earths ban
Legislation empowers government to cast wide net on foreign companies
U.S. lawmakers ask Pentagon for list of Chinese companies to curb 'economic espionage'
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked the Pentagon on Thursday to name companies owned by the Chinese military operating in the United States, as they seek to curb what they called Beijing's effort to "steal" technology for military purposes.
China court puts Fanya exchange's rare earth stock up for auction
* Auctions held in tandem with sale of entire Fanya antimony stock
‘Weaponized’ Currency and Mining Limits: China’s Responses to Trump Take Shape (Published 2019)
Beijing’s signals suggest it is ready to retaliate should the White House follow through on its new tariff threat, with potentially disruptive results.
China rare earths group supports counter-measures against U.S. 'bullying'
China's rare earths association said it would support Chinese counter-measures in the escalating trade row with the United States, which it accused on Wednesday of "bullying".
US military firms likely to face China rare earth restrictions: Global Times
BEIJING: Military equipment firms in the United States will likely have their supply of Chinese rare earths restricted, the Global Times said on ...
China's Ganzizhou Rongda Lithium restarts spodumene mine after five years
Chinese lithium firm Youngy Co Ltd's wholly owned subsidiary, Ganzizhou Rongda Lithium Co Ltd, resumed production at its spodumene - a hard-rock mineral used for lithium - mine on June 10, an official told Reuters on Thursday.
China’s May rare earth export falls as supply tapers off in trade war
The declines are pointing to the use of export permits over rare earth as leverage in China’s trade negotiations with the US, the world’s biggest importer of the elements.
Rare Earths Are a Paper Tiger in the U.S.-China Trade War
Worries about China’s monopoly over this suite of elements flare up every now and again. The truth is it’s a paper tiger.
China’s Supply of Minerals for iPhones and Missiles Could Be a Risky Trade Weapon (Published 2019)
The country dominates production of the rare earths used in myriad technologies, but tangled global supply chains make it hard to hit the U.S. directly.
Xi Jinping sounds Long March rallying call as US trade war tensions rise
Trip to Ganzhou includes stop at major producer of rare earths, minerals essential to some low-carbon technology and left off US tariffs list.
U.S. Rare Earths Revival Planned Amid Trade Conflict
An American chemicals company and an Australian miner want to build the first rare-earths separation plant in the U.S. in years, seeking to shore up supplies of important commodities caught up in the U.S.-China trade conflict.
