"Too Big To Rig", Too Divided To Agree: Democrats' Post-Landslide Agenda Fight Begins

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...

Bessent Keeps Running Tally Of China As "Unreliable Global Partner" - Count Now Stands At Three Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Tuesday that Beijing’s panic hoarding of crude and refined products, while refusing to join the rest of the world in releasing supplies to offset the Gulf energy shock, has now demonstrated for the third time in five years that China is an "unreliable global partner." "China has been an unreliable global partner three times in the past five years; once during COVID, when they hoarded healthcare products, second on...

Israel Sets 3 Key 'Conditions' For Ending Occupation Of South Lebanon Via The Cradle Israel has set several “conditions” for the withdrawal of its occupation forces from Lebanon, Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom reported this week – after Tel Aviv was forced to stop bombing the country due to the US–Iran agreement.  "Israel has three minimum conditions for withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon: the withdrawal of all Hezbollah terrorists north of the Litani River; the dismantling of Hezbollah … infrastructure south of the Litani; and full Israeli freedom of action to remove threats," the...