Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the market—and that’s not changing any time soon.

China and the U.S. understand that whoever leads in AI will likely influence global standards, intelligence gathering, national defense and commerce for decades to come.

U.S. strategic competition in 2026. China’s growth model and industrial policy is rooted in dominating the commanding heights of the economy, now defined by Beijing as science, technology, and advanced manufacturing.

CHICAGO ― Shipments of U.S. crops to China are accelerating after a tense tariff war had stalled trade for months, with at least six bulk cargo vessels scheduled to load China-bound soybeans at Gulf Coast terminals through mid-December, according to a shipping schedule seen by Reuters.

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Shares in USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ: USAR) crashed by 30.8% in November, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. It's the kind of performance that highlights the highly speculative nature of investing in rare-earth companies in the current environment, not least due to their sensitivity to political developments.

South Dakota soybean industry leaders said on Monday, Nov. 24 that a new trade pledge with China is lifting prices but hasn’t erased anxiety about how much farmers depend on a single foreign buyer.

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This company aims to build a vertically integrated business as the U.S. shifts its focus to domestic suppliers of crucial minerals.