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'A page out of China's playbook': US government's rare earth push

State capitalism and rare earth processing dilemmas

James Stent
From left: FT aerospace and defence industry correspondent Sylvia Pfeifer, CSIS director Gracelin Baskaran, and Carlyle chief strategy officer Jeff Currie

From left: FT aerospace and defence industry correspondent Sylvia Pfeifer, CSIS director Gracelin Baskaran, and Carlyle chief strategy officer Jeff Currie | Credits: FT Live

The US government's rare earth manoeuvres came up for debate in a panel discussion at the FT Metals and Mining Summit in London last week, a day after China announced further export restrictions on the...

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