As Washington decouples rare earth element purchases from China, it should focus new import partners among close allies.
A loader shifts soil containing rare earth minerals, at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, on Sept. 5, 2010. AFP via Getty Images
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Recent reports suggest that China may have violated a mid-May trade agreement with the United States by slow-rolling the approval of rare earth element (REE) magnet export applications.
Anders Corr has a bachelor’s/master’s in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea” (2018).
