Beijing Weaponized Rare Earths—How the West Is Responding
By Terri Wu | July 08, 2025Updated:July 08, 2025 At this year’s G7 summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held up a symbol of the West’s bid to gain supply chain independence from China: a rare earth magnet. “It was manufactured in Estonia, by a Canadian company using raw materials sourced from Australia