In the wake of the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s, Congress responded by creating the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an ...

During a tempestuous moment in the ongoing trade war between the world's two biggest economies, the Chinese government last October threatened to exercise its most potent economic leverage by ending ...

Surveys also revealed 27.1 million tonnes of fluorite and 37.2 million tonnes of baryte, qualifying the site as a ...

Africa has vast reserves of critical and rare earth minerals, yet 90% of critical mineral processing is controlled by China.

Beijing has unveiled significant new deposits of critical minerals, reinforcing its access to resources ...

TSMC insists that Chinese rare earth mineral export bans will not affect its production of advanced semiconductors, and has taken concrete steps to minimize disruption. China has played its most ...

China has severely curtailed its supply of critical minerals to the U.S. in recent months, showing the American defense-industrial base just how hooked it is on Beijing’s supply, according to The Wall ...

The EU plans to propose a critical minerals partnership with the U.S. that includes a memorandum of understanding and a joint road map to curb reliance on China. The initiative matters because both ...

China has invested over $120B since 2023 in global critical minerals, strengthening its dominance in clean energy supply chains and processing.

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Competing with China on critical minerals requires policymakers across the globe to grapple with the political economy underpinning mining and processing capacity.