China's robot industry is accelerating. At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reported first-half industry revenue of RMB165.5 billion ($23 ...
GAO describes battery recycling technology as mature and says it could begin reducing imports of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper within 2–3 years. That is plausible—but highly conditional.
The junta has held bilateral meetings with the United Wa State Party, Ta’ang National Liberation Army, National Democratic Alliance Army, and Shan State Progress Party. The KIO argues that this divide ...
Laos suspended a Chinese-operated rare earth project in August 2026 over legal-compliance concerns. The stoppage exposes an overlooked reality: China dominates global rare earth processing, but ...
Rare Earth Exchanges® views this announcement, covered by Cecilia Jamasmie (opens in a new tab) at Mining.com (opens in a new tab), as strategically meaningful but commercially early stage. Europe ...
This is the paper's most important lesson. China's advantage grows as the supply chain moves downstream. Joo estimates concentration at roughly Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) 5,000 for mining but ...
Indonesia wants another nickel-style downstream success story, this time in rare earths. Yet The Jakarta Post reports a harder reality: more than 100 mineral shipments were delayed in July under ...
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) (opens in a new tab) announced five coordinated countermeasures against recent U.S. actions targeting Chinese companies and technology sectors. The package ...
The next rare-earth superpower may not be a country. It may be a network. An August 12 Atlantic Council analysis argues Europe cannot realistically replicate China's entire rare-earth ecosystem by ...
Washington isn't simply asking which critical-mineral projects need money. It is asking whether they can actually become businesses. A Version 1.0 U.S. Department of Energy guide (opens in a new tab) ...
The interesting part isn't another government grant headline. It is where Ottawa wants the money spent: processing. NRCan's Critical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration (CMRDD)/Global ...
America should recognize what happened in Washington on August 7 for what it was: an important mobilization—but not a victory. The Trump administration deserves substantial credit for forcing critical ...
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