Commentary
China is trying to use extraterritorial rare-earth element licenses to control high-tech and defense production worldwide.
Thinking About China
Opinion
The CCP Tried to Impose a Global Rare-Earth Element Law and Failed
But it will try again, so the United States and allies must get ready.
Workers use machinery to dig at a rare-earth mine in Ganxian County, Jiangxi Province, China, on Dec. 30, 2010. Chinatopix via AP
Anders Corr
Author
Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
