A cybersecurity firm that tracks Chinese influence campaigns has reported on specific activity in the rare earth mining sector.

Last week, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced bipartisan legislation that "seeks to decrease America’s reliance on the Chinese Communist Party for rare-earth supplies and would enhance the Department of Defense’s rare-earth element reserves."

At a U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing today on U.S.-China Competition in Global Supply Chains, there was a discussion of the reasons for China's rise in rare earth element production, as well as the current state of central government involvement in that

Greenland Minerals A/S ("GMAS") has brought a contract-based ISDS complaint against the governments of Greenland (known as "Naalakkersuisut") and Denmark in response to a Greenland law that bans uranium prospecting, exploration, and exploitation, and which interferes with the company's Kvanefjeld rare earths project

The U.S. and Canadian governments have both held hearings and discussions, as well as taking specific actions, in recent weeks in response to China's dominance of the critical minerals market and with the objective of pushing forward with plans to develop their own supply chains in this

Last week, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced legislation intended to "protect America from the threat of rare-earth element supply disruptions, encourage domestic production of those elements, and reduce our reliance on China."

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-initiates-section-232-investigation-on-neodymium-magnets/] , in late September the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1862] "to determine the effects on