Europe's Military Future: The Challenge of Rare Earths

In an era of resurgent global conflicts, European countries find themselves at a crossroads. Russia's growing assertiveness, coupled with the possibility of the United States adopting an isolationist stance, has prompted European governments to enhance their military capabilities. This sense of urgency has forced Europe to confro…

Foreign media: To catch up with China in the rare earth industry? The West still has a long way to go

With the rapid development of 5G networks, cloud services, virtual reality and other businesses, network traffic is growing at an astonishing rate. As a core component of optical communication networks, electro-optic modulators are also facing demands for higher capacity and lower power consumption. Among them, lithium niobate (L…

Cost Only Half of China's, Zero Pollution? Evaluation of Japan's Hot Metallurgy Rare Earth Recycling Technology: Cost and Environmental Analysis

Foreign media: To catch up with China in the rare earth industry? The West still has a long way to go

US President Trump recently signed a rare earth agreement with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House. On October 28, when Trump visited Japan, the US and Japan also signed a rare earth cooperation framework agreement. US media such as Bloomberg and Singapore's business news website "The Edge Singapore…

The US-Australia rare earth agreement sidesteps the real problems（Ⅱ）

The more realistic issue lies in industrial chain coordination. The rare earth supply chain not only includes mining and smelting but also involves magnetic material manufacturing, precision processing, and terminal applications. Australia only holds the upstream resources and lacks the midstream and downstream supporting links. …

The US-Australia rare earth agreement sidesteps the real problems

The US and Australia announced on the 20th in Washington that they had signed a "Critical Minerals Supply Chain Security Framework Agreement", claiming that they would each invest 1 billion US dollars within the next six months in rare earth and critical mineral mining and processing projects, with the goal of establish…