Tag: Critical Minerals

For all of its efforts to drive a domestic manufacturing boom in key industries, the United States remains heavily reliant on Asian expertise to build batteries, the powerful technologies that ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at an alleged U.S. covert influence campaign in Greenland, U.S. and Israeli plans for postwar Gaza, and China rejecting trilateral nuclear talks ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s fixation with securing access to rare earth minerals is creating the conditions for a poor strategic decision in Myanmar. According to a recent report, the Trump ...

Take a look at the U.S. military arsenal, and you’ll find that much of the United States’ firepower depends on rare earths—powerful materials whose supply chains are largely controlled by ...

In June, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted leaders from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in the Oval Office to sign a peace deal, declaring, “Today, the ...

Washington and Beijing’s bitter trade spat over rare earths—the powerful elements that are crucial to defense and other advanced technologies—has left vulnerable European leaders worried that they could be next.  ...

Since U.S. President Donald Trump reentered office, analysts have struggled to make sense of his administration’s erratic foreign policy. But as FP’s Christina Lu writes, much of his agenda betrays ...