President Trump will get to decide where to invest Japanese money and the United States will keep 90 percent of the profits, ...

No country can successfully manage 21st-century challenges alone. What is missing is a coherent and effective multilateral ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

Trump, who sued the WSJ and its owners including Rupert Murdoch for at least $10 billion on Friday over the newspaper's ...

For example, Australia's rare earth separation facilities can meet only 30 percent of Japan's domestic demand, and Japan still mainly relies on China with the remaining. Therefore, the US is forming ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s ...

Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1 900 km southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the government-backed project ...