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30.04.26 - 01:45
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China Loses Monopoly Over The Rarest Of Rare Earths (ZeroHedge)
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China Loses Monopoly Over The Rarest Of Rare Earths
With less than three weeks to go the Trump-Xi summit in China, the scramble for leverage and superiority - whether in terms of the Iran war or the just as important supply chain of rare earths - is on. That explains why the Pentagon's push to get its hands on the rarest of the rare-earth elements leads all the way to this small port city in Malaysia.
As the WSJ reports, Australia's Lynas Rare Earths has begun pumping out heavy rare earths, the elusive kind that China dominates.
“No one had made a separated heavy rare earth outside of China in 20 years,” said Amanda Lacaze, Lynas's chief executive. The company's chief operating officer, Pol Le Roux, said it had actually been 30 years.
When China cut off exports of heavy rare-earth elements during trade tensions last year, automobile factories in the US and Europe were forced to stop production. Now, Lynas is at the vanguard of an effort by the US and allies to prevent Beijing from us...
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30.04.26 - 01:30
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Huawei′s HarmonyOS on more than 55m phones as China steps up push for domestic software (SCMP)
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China's home-grown software and operating systems like Huawei Technologies' HarmonyOS are gaining traction, according to an official of China's technology ministry, as the country accelerates its push to cut reliance on foreign technology.
More than 55 million smartphones ran on the HarmonyOS mobile platform as of the end of March, according to Ke Jixin, vice-minister of industry and information technology.
“Domestic software like operating systems and databases has been improving steadily,” Ke......
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29.04.26 - 22:57
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Chinese Nationals Among 51 Indicted Over Marijuana Grow Operations In Oklahoma (ZeroHedge)
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Chinese Nationals Among 51 Indicted Over Marijuana Grow Operations In Oklahoma
Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A Department of Homeland Security investigation has resulted in the indictment of 51 defendants—including 29 Chinese nationals—on 67 counts of conspiracy to manufacture black-market marijuana in Oklahoma for distribution in Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, and North Carolina, among other locales.
Oklahoma drug enforcement agent Mike Garcia looks over rows of marijuana plants at an illegal grow facility in Ponca City, Okla, on Dec. 22, 2025. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times
The defendants are from California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Texas. Of the 51 indicted, 23 are fugitives, and 11 of the Chinese defendants have obtained permanent legal residence in the United States.
The April 21 indictment alleges that between March 2025 and April 2026, a network of growers, brokers, transporters, and distributors s...
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29.04.26 - 17:00
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Reliance on Chinese green tech poses ′serious′ risk for Europe, experts say (The Guardian)
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Continent 'sleepwalking' into series of economic and national security problems due to over-dependenceEurope is “sleepwalking” into a series of economic and national security problems because of an over-reliance on Chinese green technology, according to experts.A report co-authored by Michael Collins, a former deputy head of national security strategy at the UK Cabinet Office, described the risks of depending on China for green tech as “serious”. Continue reading......
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