The COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, opened on Monday with a declaration that climate alarmism is still in vogue, even with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House and a stern lecture for wealthy countries to stop thinking of climate funding for developing nations as “charity.”
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers ordered a Chinese investment fund to sell off shares of a strategic rare-earths mining company.
Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, pledging to defend Beijing’s false claims on Taiwan.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum claimed during the Republican primary debate that China “controls 85 percent of the rare-earth minerals.”
On Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose Fernandez stated that the U.S.’s push with other countries to diversify the supply of rare earth minerals will be done
The Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday that the government of China is considering banning the export of technology used to create rare-earth fueled high-performance magnets, often used in electric vehicles and other advanced technology.
Taliban terrorists detained five men, three Afghans and two Chinese citizens, suspected of attempting to smuggle lithium across the Chinese border, the Afghan news outlet Khaama Press reported on Monday.
The European Union is completely reliant on foreign imports for 14 “critical” raw materials needed for industry, a study has found.
Rep. Markwayne Mullin said China and Russia are the primary beneficiaries of the push for “renewable” energy in the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper applauded its bosses on Tuesday for playing “an increasing important role” in helping the Taliban cement its stranglehold on Afghanistan through business ventures, particularly in pursuit of the country’s vast mineral wealth.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) predicted that Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan “will be taken over by China,” and that China will also scoop up
Chinese-owned companies in Myanmar are allegedly responsible for illegal mining operations that are destroying the natural landscape of Myanmar’s border region with China, local miners of dysprosium and terbium — two heavy rare earth minerals used in clean energy products and smart electronics — told the organization Global Witness for a report published on Tuesday.
Australian mining company Arafura Resources said on Wednesday that an enormous deposit of rare earth minerals discovered in central Australia, developed with the aid of a $30 million grant from the federal government, could help to significantly weaken Communist China’s stranglehold on the rare-earths supply – a class of minerals vitally important to “green energy” projects around the world.
Two cobalt salt plants in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang halted production on December 10 in response to local Chinese coronavirus “flare-ups,” the Global Times reported Thursday, noting the labor suspensions threaten to cause a spike in the prices of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, which rely on cobalt as a key component.
The supply chain necessary to produce electric vehicles is littered with nations that abuse human rights and environmental best practices.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) stated that America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will result in large stores of rare earth minerals and critical minerals “that are going to power the electronics, the
Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan — marketed as an “infrastructure” proposal — would create a “Soviet-style economy”, warned Rep. Scott Perry.
China could cripple the United State’s defense industry by limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are critical to manufacturing F-35 fighter jets and other vital weaponry, according to a report in Financial Times.
Sen. Marco Rubio’s idea of “common-good capitalism” makes obvious good sense, and yet, of course, not everyone agrees. Still, Rubio has started a valuable debate, and if he prevails, the Republican Party—and the United States—will be stronger.
President Trump’s stand against China’s trade practices includes ending the Communist regime’s dominance of the rare earth market.
The Pentagon is hoping to team up with Australia to construct a rare earths processing facility that would permanently break China’s hold on an industry crucial to high-tech manufacturing and weapons development, Voice of America News reported on Monday.
As a matter of national security and economic prosperity, it makes sense for the United States to have a strong footprint in Greenland.
China accused the United States of waging “naked economic terrorism” against it on Thursday as Beijing escalated the rhetoric surrounding its trade war with America.
The Global Times says it has “absolute confidence that China will win and deal a knockout blow to the US economy.”
Chinese state media warn the U.S. not to underestimate the willingness of China to hit back against attempts to “curb” Huawei.
The Global Times reported that an official had implied China could use its near monopoly of rare-earths in trade war.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping continued his “Long March” propaganda tour on Monday by visiting a memorial to the beginning of that 4,000-mile retreat by the Red Army.
China is prepared to use its domination of raw materials used in virtually all high-tech manufacturing to gain leverage in the trade dispute.
Contents: Japan finds ‘semi-infinite supply’ of rare earth minerals in its territorial waters; Japan’s rare earths discovery represents a defeat for China
