China views its rare earths as a national security issue, not a trade one, and that’s why Beijing is unlikely to loosen ...

By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China has signalled for more than 15 years that it was looking to weaponise areas of the ...

The scramble in recent weeks to secure export licences for rare earths shows China has devised a better, more precisely ...

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Thursday, June 5, 2025, agreeing to hold further ...

U.S.-China tensions over rare earth minerals threaten smartphone production, risking higher costs and supply shortages.

Negotiations have since stalled. Trump has accused China of violating the agreement, without specifying how. Beijing believes Washington breached the consensus by tightening export controls on AI ...

The greatest US vulnerability is a political and economic system that slows rare earth development, despite its national ...