China quietly built a near-monopoly in rare earth metals through decades of strategic investment, innovation, and state-led ...

Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...

Deng Liqun, Who Battled China’s Liberals, Dies at 99 . Mr. Deng, a senior propaganda and ideology official in China, was once called as stubborn as a “Hunan mule” by Deng Xiaoping. By Chris ...