Connect with us
Critical minerals competition is about more than locating deposits. Mining, chemical processing, refining, component manufacturing and recycling are distinct steps....
Critical minerals have become a foreign-policy issue because a small missing input can interrupt production far beyond the mining industry. The strategic question is not simply...
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....