For years, a mining project in Africa held the promise of helping free the West from its dependence on China for rare earths. Some weeks back, it fell…
Read more The Failed Crusade to Keep a Rare-Earths Mine Out of China’s HandsThe Trump administration’s renewed focus on securing critical minerals highlights an urgent truth, reinforced in “China Aims to Keep U.S. Military From Obtaining Its Rare Earths” (U.S. News,…
Read more Opinion | End U.S. Energy DependenceBEIJING—China has demonstrated it can weaponize its control over global supply chains by constricting the flow of critical rare-earth minerals. President Trump went to the negotiating table when…
Read more How China’s Chokehold on Drugs, Chips and More Threatens the U.S.A cascade of billion-dollar deals is reshaping the once-dormant Western critical-minerals industry, which the U.S. and its allies hope will act as a bulwark against aggressive trade practices by…
Read more America’s Hottest New Investment: Rare-Earth CompaniesThe underground wealth beneath the Arctic city of Kiruna fuels Sweden’s economy and is a central cog in one of Europe’s core defense industries. It has also, quite…
Read more It Sits on a Vast Haul of Mineral Wealth. Now This Arctic City Must Be Moved.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he plans to coordinate with allies to counter China’s weaponization of rare-earth minerals. It’s the right move, though he might find it…
Read more Opinion | Allies United Against China on Rare EarthsPresident Trump threatened to raise tariffs and impose export controls on China and said there was “no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after Beijing’s new…
Read more Trump Threatens Higher Tariffs on China Citing Restrictions on Rare-Earth ElementsSINGAPORE—China tightened its control over critical minerals used to make high-tech products including electric vehicles and jet fighters, threatening to reignite trade tensions with the U.S. ahead of…
Read more China Tightens Grip on Rare Earths Ahead of Expected Trump-Xi MeetingBy David Sachs and Joshua Kirby Eramet shares fell Wednesday after the French miner said it was ceasing operations in Gabon, where the military has reportedly seized control…
Read more Eramet Shares Tumble as Gabon Coup Halts Manganese Mining
