How Trump Admin Is Breaking the CCP’s Hold on Rare Earths

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September 25, 2025Updated:September 25, 2025

The United States recognized decades ago that the Chinese Communist Party was subsidizing a vast expansion of Chinese mining and processing capacities to manipulate mineral and metal markets and dominate global manufacturing supply chains.

As early as 1980, with the adoption of the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research, and Development Act, Congress declared an urgent priority “to strengthen materials research, development, production capability, and performance of the United States.”