Category: Strategic Resources

China Squeezes Japan Over Rare Earths in Repeat of 2010 Showdown

By Solomon Cefai Japan is the largest rare earth magnet maker outside China but like the rest of the world is overwhelmingly dependent on Beijing for imports of certain so-called heavy rare earths used in magnet-making, aerospace and defense, as ...

Australia Orders China-Linked Investors to Sell Stakes in Rare Earths Firm

Australia ordered a string of China-linked shareholders to sell their stakes in a rare earths firm on Monday, citing the need to protect the sector from foreign control. Northern Minerals is vying to challenge China's dominance in producing dysprosium, a rare ...

Delicate Extraction: Malaysia Offers Rare Earths Alternative to China

By Jan HENNOP As workers load tons of rare earth minerals into bags ready for shipping at a refinery in eastern Malaysia, they are fueling the global pushback against China’s grip on the critical sector. ...

Chile, U.S. Eye Collaboration on Rare Earths and Other Critical Minerals

Chile and the U.S. have signed a joint statement to begin discussions on rare earths and other types of critical minerals, Chile's foreign ministry said on Thursday. The first meeting will take place within the next two weeks, ...

China Presses Malaysia and Cambodia Over US Trade Deals

China has asked Malaysia and Cambodia to explain the trade agreements they signed with the United States in October, issuing rare public complaints that the deals require the two Southeast Asian governments to adopt American security-related trade measures. China’s Ministry ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

Reading the Xi-Trump Summit’s South/North Signals

As I write, U.S. President Donald Trump is aboard Air Force One en route home after his highly anticipated visit to Beijing. 
There is much we still don’t know – not least what was discussed in face-to-face meetings towards the end of the visit. As often happens with Trump, the coverage collapses the personal and the global, with the former injecting wild-card energy into the latter.

Get a ...

Malaysia to Fast-Track Joint Rare Earths Investment with China: PM

Kuala Lumpur will fast-track and speed up talks on a joint Malaysia-China rare earths investment via Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, Khazanah Nasional, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said today. “During my meeting with Premier Li Qiang, I proposed that China’s investment ...

China Pauses U.S.-Targeted Curbs on Gallium & Germanium

China’s Commerce Ministry MOFCOM said Sunday that it pauses, or suspending U.S.-targeted export curbs on gallium, germanium and antimony. The suspension runs through November 27 next year and is reversible. Beijing will require exporters to obtain licenses and pass ...

Thailand Faces Backlash Over U.S. Rare Earth Deal Aimed at China

The U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Sunday signed a rare earths and critical minerals memorandum on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur. The deal is drawing immediate backlash in Bangkok from opposition lawmakers. ...

Addressing China, U.S. Gets Full Rare Earth Access from Malaysia

The United States is moving to lock in Malaysia as a secure economic and strategic partner in Southeast Asia. The U.S.–Malaysia rare earths agreement ties market access to U.S. rules on critical minerals, rare earths, technology, data, labor, and national ...

China’s Export Curbs Spur Rare Earth Scramble

China’s announcement last week that exports of refined rare earth minerals, permanent magnets using these elements, and the equipment used to refine them, has sparked panic among the countries that depend on these exports for high-technology products, including weapons and wind turbines.

China to License Rare-Earth Exports to Screen Security Risks

China’s Commerce Ministry on Sunday says rare-earth export licenses will screen security risks, not halt trade nor impose an export ban. Compliant civilian applications “will get approval,” with a “very limited” supply-chain impact. It says partners were notified in ...

China to Stockpile 169 Million Barrels of Oil by 2026

China is expanding its crude oil reserves with new storage sites scheduled for completion in 2025–2026. The effort will add at least 169 million barrels of capacity across 11 locations, according to public data. China has built about ...
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