China has installed large steel cages and a former oil drilling rig in the Yellow Sea, raising concerns in South Korea that they could be used for military purposes.

The deal involves loosening exports of rare earths to the United States and the lifting of some restrictions on U.S. goods to China, China’s Ministry of Commerce said.

Japan said China is building a 20th structure in a disputed, energy-rich area and called for a return to negotiations.

The U.S. and China have agreed on the framework for a trade deal, both nations say. It appears that rare earth minerals are one key part of it.

China signaled it would approve the export of rare earth minerals in a statement Friday hours after White House officials said that the US and China had signed a trade agreement to work out ...

In Upstart: How China Became a Great Power, the Stanford University political scientist Oriana Skylar Mastro, who also serves in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, provides a systematic and creative ...

China’s authorities have supercharged this shift. The party is a big fan of the discipline. Many high-ranking officials, including Xi Jinping, China’s leader, have engineering degrees.

The European Union wants China to resolve the export issue around rare earth magnets before a meeting of their leaders next month, according to the bloc’s top envoy to Beijing.

BEIJING—China on Friday pledged to approve export applications for rare earths to the U.S., potentially easing a major irritant in the countries’ trade negotiations that has also become a ...

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China and Taiwan have clashed over their competing interpretations of history in an escalating war of words over what Beijing views as provocations from Taiwan's government, and said it is ...

The SIPRI Yearbook 2025, released on June 16, highlights China’s rapidly expanding nuclear stockpile, which is the fastest-growing in the world.