A Free Pass for China
After the WTO declared China’s rare-earth policies to be in violation of global trade rules...
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WTO Confirms China Loses Rare-Earths Case
In 2010, China, then home to 40% of the world’s proven rare-earth reserves, accounted for...
China Further Consolidates Rare Earth Industry
While China is home to around 25% of the world’s proven reserves of rare-earth elements...
China’s Arctic Ambitions
China’s appetite for raw materials has become a source of concern from Afghanistan and Mongolia to Peru and Zambia. Now, these tensions appear to have spread to Greenland, where the prospect of Chinese encroachment...
China’s Part in Afghanistan Mining Boom
A New York Times article on the rush for Afghanistan’s estimated trillion-dollar natural resources includes details of Chinese companies’ involvement. Already this summer, the China National Petroleum Corporation, in...
WTO to Probe China’s Rare-Earth Policies
After the request by the European Union, Japan, and the United States for the World Trade Organization to examine China’s rare-earth industry, the WTO will probe into China’s rare-earth policies, from AFP:The decision was taken...
Rare White Paper Published on Rare Earths
China’s State Council on Wednesday issued its first white paper on the controversial rare-earth metal sector, hailing its developmental achievements but also acknowledging the environmental consequences of and promising...
China Reaches Out on Rare Earth
Export quotas on China’s rare earth minerals were called into question last month at the WTO, not the first time China has been multilaterally confronted over this issue. The Wall Street Journal reports on what may be...
China Daily Counts Rare Earths’ Environmental Cost
As the US, EU and Japan pursue a WTO case against China for allegedly abusing its near monopoly over rare earth supplies, China Daily argues that tightening control is a necessary environmental protection measure, not an...
Pollution In Fashion and Under Rugs
Outsourced pollution is a convenient effect of outsourced manufacturing. A paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year found that once it was taken into account, developed countries’ apparent 2%...
Obama Announces WTO Case Against China
As China tries to get a firm grasp on its control of rare earth metals, the EU, Japan, and the US have rallied together to file a case against China at the WTO. China produces a majority of the 17 rare earth metals that are...
China Consolidates Grip on Rare Earths
The ongoing saga of China’s control over rare earth metals is impacting the cost of a number of high-tech goods that use the minerals in manufacturing, including environmentally-friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs,...
Chasing Rare Earths, Foreign Companies Expand in China
China’s policy on rare earth minerals, used in the manufacturing of numerous high-tech goods including cell phones and hybrid cars, has been under scrutiny over the past year as the country holds a near monopoly on the...
Pepe Escobar: China Rules the Rare Earth
On Al Jazeera, Pepe Escobar writes about China’s domination of the market for rare earth elements, and how the fight for the precious resource will impact global foreign policy in coming years: Oil wars? Water wars? Sure...
Why Nobody But China Produces Rare Earth Metals
The discovery of massive rare earth deposits on the Pacific floor could, claims Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, “end China’s virtual monopoly on the metals”. From The Wall Street Journal: The Japanese team found...
China Moves to Consolidate Rare-earths Industry
China is making some changes to its rare earth industry, which has been under attack by trade partners who claim the country is maintaining a global monopoly on the valuable resource. From MarketWatch: China plans to consolidate...
Outsourced Emissions Cancel Developed Countries’ Carbon Cuts
New research shows that Kyoto emission reductions by developing countries evaporate when outsourced manufacturing is factored in, with China hosting three quarters of the world’s outsourced emissions. From The Guardian:...
China Soon May Need to Import Rare Earths on Demand, Mining Official Says
Despite the fact that China now controls about 95% of global supply of rare earth elements, the country may need to import the minerals to meet rising domestic demand, Bloomberg reports: “China may eventually need to import the...
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