The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their dependence on Beijing’s critical metals.

Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States.

The contracts are the latest sign of how Europe is lagging the United States in the race to break China’s chokehold on rare earths.

Drones, missiles and other crucial components of Europe’s rush to rearm itself rely on an increasingly unsteady supply of minerals from China.

Two economists on the price of playing nice with a superpower.

The president’s trade truce with China has lowered U.S. tariffs to a level that could pause a longer-term effort to reduce America’s dependence on Beijing.

At an Asia-Pacific summit, the Chinese leader urged countries to “resist unilateral bullying,” an appeal that seemed at odds with his country’s recent actions.

China’s far-reaching rules already affect manufacturers of semiconductors, cars and many other products. They will soon become much broader.

Concern is increasing throughout Southeast Asia as U.S. officials, intent on slowing China, have yet to say how they will define the origin country of imports.

Nexperia, a computer chip maker based in the Netherlands, was taken over by the Dutch government after pressure from officials in Washington.

Beijing’s latest effort to weaponize global supply chains is modeled on the American technology controls that it has long criticized.