Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

Unlike countries such as South Korea or Japan, India does not export anything that China critically needs and cannot easily replace.

Nations that avoided China in recent years are now sending their leaders to Beijing for meetings with Chinese President Xi ...

China’s leverage rests on its near-monopoly of rare-earth supply chains. It accounts for 70% of the ores dug up, over 90% of ...

On November 18, Brazilian soybeans for shipment in December to China were priced at $507.90 per metric ton, below $516.90 for U.S. Gulf supplies and $510.50 for U.S. Pacific Northwest origin, on a ...

In December, China announced new tariffs on beef imports from suppliers such as Argentina and Brazil, currently its two largest sources for the commodity. China published its third official policy ...