INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
China’s chokehold on the global supply of rare earth elements – and its recent willingness to weaponise it – will have top billing
when European Union leaders thrash out an agenda over dinner on Thursday for a crunch summit with Chinese leaders in Beijing next month.
The
export restrictions, which have brought some manufacturing processes in Europe close to standstill, have leapfrogged the EU’s medley of
other complaints with China to become the dominant issue in a troubled relationship.
The...
