China's Upper Hand: Rare Earth Metals

中国优势:稀土金属

The Daily

新闻

2025-06-10

30 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

In the trade war between the United States and China, the biggest sticking point is a handful of metals that are essential to the U.S. and almost entirely under the control of China. The problem is, China has now cut off America’s access to those metals, threatening American industry and the U.S. military. Keith Bradsher explains how the United States became so dependent on China for these metals in the first place, and just how hard it will be to live without them. Guest: Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times. Background reading:  China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a rare earth metal that the United States and its allies need to rebuild inventories of fighter jets, missiles and other hardware.What to know about China’s halt of rare earth exports.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Photo: Bert van Dijk/Getty Images Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • From The New York Times,

  • this is The Daily.

  • I'm Natalie Ketrolaff.

  • In the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China,

  • the biggest sticking point is a handful of metals that are extremely rare,

  • essential to the U.S., and almost entirely under the control of China.

  • The problem is China has now cut off America's access to those metals,

  • threatening U.S. industry and its military.

  • Today,

  • my colleague Keith Bradshaw explains how the U.S. became so dependent on China for these metals in the first place

  • and just how hard it'll be to live without them.

  • It's Tuesday, June 10th.

  • Keith?

  • It is lovely to see you again.

  • It's great to be back.

  • Thank you.

  • So it's Monday evening.

  • Delegations for the U.S. and China met in London today to try to hash out a deal to de-escalate this trade war.

  • There's going to be another set of meetings on Tuesday.

  • And at the heart of these negotiations, we know, are these rare earth metals.