Von der Leyen visits Japan for two days starting Tuesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold a summit with von ...

The Trump administration has heard competing proposals that would significantly alter longstanding U.S. policy toward Myanmar ...

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

When China began its crackdown on the sector some fifteen years ago, there were hundreds of miners and processors. By 2013 ...

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

The Trump administration is exploring proposals to secure Myanmars rare earth minerals, aiming to reduce U.S. dependence on ...

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.

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of Tokyo… ...

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?

When China restricted rare earth exports to Japan in 2010 during a diplomatic spat, a wild west domestic industry undermined Beijing with rampant smuggling. In a sharp shift that reflects how China ...

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.