President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a trip to China might be “not too distant,” raising prospects that the leaders of the ...

President Donald Trump says a trip to China may happen soon, hinting at efforts to stabilize U.S.-China trade relations.

To accumulate industrial leverage over the U.S., China played the long game. The U.S. must do the same.

China’s exports of rare earth elements surged sharply in June, rebounding from multi-year lows after Beijing eased some of its stringent trade war restrictions. The increase suggests a partial ...

China’s exports of rare-earth products jumped in June, pointing to a potential pickup in magnet supplies after ...

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

The moves by Apple and the Pentagon are part of a broader U.S. push to nearshore rare earth supply chains. Earlier this year, ...

The money will allow the business, with operations including a mine in California and a factory in Texas, to dramatically ...

MP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.

Recent headlines from President Trump's trade war have extended to the metals market, providing investors with more reason to ...

China’s grip on rare earths a lethal weapon in US trade war The world’s second-biggest economy controls about 70 per cent of production and nearly all refining of a range of industrial minerals.

The rate earth metals issue shows that it’s time for the United States to treat critical minerals not as commodities, but as instruments of geopolitical power.