Today we begin with an important area of competition in which China dominates and the U.S. is rushing to keep pace: the production of important raw materials needed to power everything from smartphones to electric car batteries. America’s longstanding disadvantage […]
There’s a growing competition between the U.S., Russia and China, and it’s taking place in a part of the world that may surprise you: The Arctic. That desolate expanse of sea and ice almost one and half times the size
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(Original air date 11/22/20) During the frenzy leading into the election, there was an emergency declaration you may not have heard about. In late September, President Trump declared the U.S. dependence on China for so-called ‘rare earth’ minerals a ‘national
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During the frenzy leading into the election, there was an emergency declaration you may not have heard about. In late September, President Trump declared the U.S. dependence on China for so-called ‘rare earth’ minerals a ‘national emergency’. Those minerals are
