Critical minerals have become a foreign-policy issue because a small missing input can interrupt production far beyond the mining industry....
Southeast Asia is becoming one of the most important battlegrounds in the global critical-minerals economy. But the region’s biggest opportunity may not be choosing between Washington...
Malaysia is quietly running one of the more consequential balancing acts in global industrial policy: negotiating rare earth technology, investment and offtake terms with Washington, Tokyo,...
BRUSSELS — The European Union is establishing a dedicated crisis task force to prepare for a possible escalation in tensions with China over rare earth exports,...
As the United States and its G7 partners race to build critical minerals supply chains outside China’s control, ASEAN economies — sitting on some of the...
China posted a record export month in June 2026. Nearly every outlet covering it led with the same number — $412 billion, up 27% — and...
Morgan Stanley says salt is the new oil. GE Vernova builds gas turbines for AI data centres. Copper, lithium, and sodium are the new strategic reserves....