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 ...

President Trump will get to decide where to invest Japanese money and the United States will keep 90 percent of the profits, ...

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 ...

China's rare earth export controls impact global automotive supply chains, accelerating de-sinicization and alternative technology R&D in the US, Europe, and Japan, but dependence remains ...

Rare earth elements are a family of 17 metallic elements with unusual properties that make them useful for specific applications.

A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns downriver in Thailand, as China's influence in the sector looms large.