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America’s $500 million bet on rare earths depends on a tiny New Hampshire refinery scaling from 200 kg to 120 tonnes in 2 years

Depleted missile stockpiles and a July 20 sourcing ban are pushing firms like Phoenix Tailings and Arnold Magnetic to scale up production.

03.08.2026 3

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Meta Oversight Board study: AI chatbots may be the most perfect propaganda machine ever invented

The study found bots even answer differently based on language too — ChatGPT calls China "not a democracy" in English, but hedges in Chinese.

16.07.2026 6

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Trump says China agreed to buy $17 billion of American beef per year

Data from the Department of Agriculture show China's imports of U.S. agricultural goods peaked in 2022 with $38 billion but fell to $8 billion in...

18.05.2026 10

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In 2011, Barack Obama said it was time to ‘pivot’ to Asia. But 15 years later, the U.S. is still at war in the Middle East

“Rebalancing to Asia is highly relevant to America’s national interests, but it has been undercut by many bad decisions.”

12.04.2026 20

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China steps forward into world leadership role on Iran war, crisis as America looks on with disinterest

China put forward a five-point proposal with Pakistan, rallying support from the Gulf and opposing a UN proposal to use force in the Strait of Hormuz.

04.04.2026 20

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Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu: 2 Olympians, 2 Californians, 2 countries

In China, Gu is known as "frog princess," rewarded for her excellence with millions of dollars. In America, she's called a traitor.

10.03.2026 20

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JD Vance appeals to allies for new ‘trading bloc’ that keeps Trump’s tariffs in place, secures access to rare earths

“We don’t want to ever go through what we went through a year ago,” Trump said on Monday when announcing Project Vault.

04.02.2026 30

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Congress’ solution for rare earths crisis: a brand-new $2.5 billion federal agency

It’s too early to tell how the bipartisan bill, if passed, could align with the White House’s policy.

15.01.2026 30

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‘China was playing chess while the rest of us were playing checkers’: Bombshell study finds $200 billion of secret loans to U.S. businesses over 25 years

Many of the loans from China’s state lenders were routed through shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Delaware and elsewhere, according...

18.11.2025 60

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Scott Bessent says stay tuned for ‘substantial support for our farmers, especially the soybean farmers’

“The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being hurt because China is, for ‘negotiating’ reasons only, not buying,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

06.10.2025 30

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If there isn’t a China trade deal soon, U.S. soybean farmer warns ‘they’re going to bypass us altogether’

“It’s just unfortunate that we’re being used as a bargaining chip in this trade war that’s not of our own doing,” Ragland said.

05.10.2025 30

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Farmer warns ‘this is a five-alarm fire’ as time is running out ahead of harvest, and there’s still no China deal

“We want to work. We work the land, we harvest the land, the crop off the land. And the worst thing that we could ever want is a handout.”

27.09.2025 40

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hauled before China’s cyber cops to explain ‘backdoor safety risks’ in H20 chips

“Cybersecurity is critically important to us. NVIDIA does not have ‘backdoors’ in our chips that would give anyone a remote way to access or...

01.08.2025 40

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Trump teases ‘not too distant’ China visit amid thaw in trade war and rare earth shipments

Trump said the U.S. is “getting along with China very well. We have a very good relationship." He added that Beijing has resumed shipping to the...

23.07.2025 30

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