Nahal Toosi is POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent. She has reported on war, genocide and political chaos in a ...

With help from a longtime Silicon Valley investor turned White House insider, Mr. Huang got the administration to reverse course on restrictions.

China has a chokehold on Rare Earth Elements. That is not hyperbole—it is reality. Beijing controls nearly 90 percent of global REE refinement and more than 90 percent of permanent magnet production.