President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced an $8.5 billion rare earths agreement to reduce dependence on China's mineral supply dominance.

In Washington, China hawks say its economy is too weak to withstand a tariff shock. In the city of Yiwu, factories are showing why, for now, that may be a miscalculation.

CALLING, gaslighting, stonewalling, over-generalising: talks between China and America bear the hallmarks of a toxically dysfunctional relationship. For months, negotiations have veered between temporary truces and explosive escalations.

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves announced plans to explore rare earth mineral production at sites in Michigan and Minnesota amid China's export controls.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Monday Washington will respond "appropriately to China's targeting of critical industrial sectors for dominance," but did not lay out specific follow up steps in his statement.

One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as its top leader Xi Jinping and other ruling Communist Party elites gather in Beijing to map out the country’s goals for the next five years.

Every year or so, the country's highest political body, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, convenes for a week of meetings, also known as a Plenum. What it decides at this one will eventually form the basis of China's next Five Year Plan - the blueprint that the world's second largest economy will follow between 2026 and 2030.

The deal to develop critical mineral supply chains between the United States and Australia is not quite the game-changer needed to end Western reliance on China, but it is an important first step.

The iPhone 17 series has outsold the iPhone 16 series by 14% in the U.S. and China within its first 10 days of availability.