And that is one of the reasons why the Australian government is loaning Iluka A$1.65bn ($1bn; £798m) to build a refinery to ...

Back then China tended to punish transgressions by cutting access to its consumer market, such as for Australian wine or ...

The United States and China have extended a trade truce for another 90 days, the latest development in a months-long showdown between the two economic powerhouses.

MP Materials aims to build a U.S. rare-earths-and-magnets supply chain that can eventually compete with China.

But clean-energy technologies are advancing rapidly enough that trying to imagine the industry’s needs 75 years from now is a ...

It may seem like a small sum but the $87 million the Australian government is handing to two metal smelters owned by global ...

The Trump administration is on a rogue quest to mine critical minerals from the ocean floor — and recent global negotiations ...

By Eurasianet US officials keep expressing enthusiasm for expanding trade in critical minerals with Central Asian states. But ...

Trump’s major gamble on China continues to pay off, with Chinese negotiators willing to make some concessions. Trump has maintained very high tariffs on America’s second-biggest trading partner ...

The previous deadline was set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Had that happened, the U.S. could have ratcheted up taxes on ...

China has been a major investor and trade partner in Central Asia for some twenty-five years. For the first half of those years, Beijing was focused on oil ...

Luu Anh Tuan was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Vietnam after signing a technology transfer agreement to bring rare earth ...