China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heightens risks to U.S. defense and semiconductor supply chains.| www.csis.org
A bucket-wheel excavator operating in a large open-pit mine, December 2012. Source: Pixabay.| Journal of Political Risk
China maintains a chokehold on all aspects of rare earths production.| MINING.COM
🎯 Why Rare Earths Matter — and Why China Controls Them Seven critical metals—samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, | Eastern Angle