An Uncomfortable Reality: China's Rare Earth Chokehold May Outlast This Decade

An Uncomfortable Reality: China's Rare Earth Chokehold May Outlast This Decade An inconvenient reality for the Trump administration's race to rebuild Western conflict-free critical materials supply chains outside China, whether domestically or through friendshoring, is that it won't break China's chokehold this decade. The main problem for the US lies well beyond the mine, ING analysts Ewa Manthey and Coco Zhang wrote in a note on Monday titled "The US rare earth push: what comes next?" Extracting more ore does very little for US companies that depend on Chinese processing plants to...