China Clearly Signals It's Prepared to Use a Key Component in Phones as It Fights U.S. Trade War
The Chinese government is showing signs that it's ready to use rare earth metals as a bargaining chip in the trade war between the U.S. and China that's escalated over recent weeks. China supplies roughly 80 percent of all rare earth metals used by the U.S. in everything from smartphones to X-ray machines, which means"