Op-ed: U.S. is losing rare earth metals war to China, and running out of time to win it back

Australia’s lawsuit over rare minerals is a geopolitical litmus test

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is trying to protect access to resources that are critical for our military technologies and the transition to clean energy.

There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away.

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

The delicate art of natural resource diplomacy

LONDON – Resource competition has long underpinned international relations. But it seems to be taking center stage again, much like the nineteenth-century Scramble for Africa or Western grabs for Midd...

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s China deal: rare earths pave the green road to militarisation

Clean tech’s key minerals now drive western rearmament, reviving extractive ambition and exposing the toxic cost of dependenceIt’s an irony that the minerals needed to save the planet may help destroy it. Rare earth elements, the mineral backbones of wind turbines and electric vehicles, are now the prize in a geopolitical arms race. The trade agreement between Washington and Beijing restores rare earth shipments from China to the US, which had b…

Op-ed: U.S. is losing rare earth metals war to China, and running out of time to win it back

The rate earth metals issue shows that it's time for the United States to treat critical minerals not as commodities, but as instruments of geopolitical power.