Quad has 20 minerals in common — including cobalt, graphite, lithium and REEs — low-hanging fruit for alignment. Yet, 36 ...

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?

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 ...

The U.S. is recycling old electronics to reduce its dependence on China for rare earth metals. Companies like Glencore, Illumynt, and Cyclic Materials are expanding operations to extract metals from e ...