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 ...

Additionally, the Department of Defense has agreed to purchase a $400 million equity stake in rare-earth miner MP Materials, ...

Donald Trump is pushing the U.S. government deeper into corporate boardrooms, taking direct ownership stakes and executive ...

The Trump administration has shown that it’s willing to buy up stakes in publicly traded companies, a level of intervention ...

No country can successfully manage 21st-century challenges alone. What is missing is a coherent and effective multilateral ...

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

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

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth metals powering our digital and green future.

Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

What to Know About the Rush for Rare Earth Metals in War-Torn Myanmar In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which ...

Unregulated rare earth mining in Myanmar, directed by Chinese enterprises, is poisoning the Kok and at least three other rivers that flow through Thailand.