China’s evolving export control regime targets a broad spectrum of other mineral resources and advanced technologies beyond ...

The agreement highlights a critical gap in China’s semiconductor ambitions: Without access to advanced U.S. software tools, ...

China has quietly issued its first 2025 rare earth mining and smelting quotas without the typical public statement, sources ...

China mines around 70% and processes around 90% of rare earths. The U.S. is hoping to change that with investment in the ...

U.S. officials said they confirmed that Beijing would continue to allow for the export of rare earth magnets, one of the ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...

China has released its first set of rare earth mining quotas for 2025 quietly, marking a move to tighten state control over ...

Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China October 31, 2010. Picture taken October 31, 2010.

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

How China’s new rare-earth export controls target the Pentagon—and the world The licensing system replaces a cruder, less flexible means of economic leverage.

While China produces 90% of the rare earth magnets used worldwide and consumes most of them, exports ranged from 18% to 50% of total revenue in 2024 among the 11 largest publicly listed magnet ...