Breitbart Business Digest: Why America Needs a Price Floor for Rare Earths to Break China’s Monopoly
China’s thirty-year price war shows that “market forces” alone can’t build a secure supply chain.

China’s thirty-year price war shows that “market forces” alone can’t build a secure supply chain.

President Donald Trump signed a critical minerals deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday, a team-up explicitly intended to break China’s near-monopoly on mining and refining the valuable resources.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported that 25 provincial authorities are set to begin distributing “maternity allowances” to women on November 1.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry took a moment on Monday to chastise the government of Paraguay for its longstanding alliance with Taiwan, warning that it’s commitment to the sovereign nation would “lead nowhere.”

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is taking action to address the increasing threat of Chinese-controlled companies to our national security.

Passengers on an Air China flight witnessed a lithium battery burst into flames in luggage that had been placed in an overhead bin on Saturday.

As TikTok’s U.S. business faces a potential sale to Oracle and a group of investors, concerns are growing about the future of the app’s powerful content-recommendation algorithm.

The Trump administration floated a bold idea to break China’s monopoly on rare earth minerals and attract long-term investment in U.S. rare earth production.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday boasted that Budapest “is essentially the only place in Europe today” where President Donald Trump could hold a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, “primarily because Hungary is almost the only pro-peace country.”

Criminal organizations operating out of China have made more than $1 billion over the last three years by bombarding Americans with scam text messages, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Typical scam messages warn unsuspecting Americans of toll violations or postal fees, eventually asking for a credit card number.

The Chinese Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it had banished nine senior member of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers, including a former Politburo member, from the Communist Party for alleged corruption.

Friday on Fox Business Network’s “‘Mornings with Maria,” President Donald Trump said that a 157% tariff on all Chinese goods was “not sustainable.”

Chinese state actors are a national security threat to the United Kingdom “every day”, Russian agents are committed to “causing havoc and destruction”, and Iran is actively trying to kill people on British soil, a top spy has said. The

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to block imports of Chinese cooking oil in retaliation for China’s apparent blockade of soybeans from the United States.

The Russian government on Thursday downplayed President Donald Trump’s statement that he has persuaded India to dramatically reduce its massive purchases of Russian oil, teasing a major offering of Russian military hardware as an incentive for India to keep funding President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

The Chinese government on Thursday insisted its massive oil imports from Russia are “legitimate and lawful” and threatened “countermeasures to firmly defend its sovereignty” if President Donald Trump pressures Beijing to stop buying Russian oil.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry on Tuesday announced sanctions against five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilding company Hanwha Ocean.

The African island nation of Madagascar is undergoing its second coup in less than 20 years, as massive protests led by an energetic youth movement appear to have toppled the government of President Andry Rajoelina.

China intercepted “vast amounts” of the most classified documents for several years by buying the data centre, Dominic Cummings has claimed.

The final part of our series on this year’s Nobel Prize winners, we examine what happened when economists tested their creative destruction theories against real-world data and discovered what Rust Belt voters have been saying for decades.

A mosquito-borne virus that triggered restrictions in China has been found in the United States.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared that the Trump administration “won’t negotiate” with China in response to stock market volatility, but because “we are doing what is best economically for the U.S.” after the Wall Street Journal reported otherwise.

Eighty percent of swing district voters back seizing illegal Chinese-made vapes at the border and prosecuting gangs that smuggle e-cigarettes, which could give Republicans a key advantage that could help the GOP maintain control of the House.

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt’s Nobel Prize-winning research exposes why China’s systematic IP theft violates the core conditions required for innovation to flourish.

The Chinese Communist government launched its biggest crackdown on Christians in years over the weekend, detaining dozens of pastors from “house churches,” including Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the founder of one of China’s biggest evangelical churches.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un held a massive military parade on Friday and Saturday in Pyongyang that included the public debut of North Korea’s most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-20.

Netherlands took effective control of Chinese-owned Nexperia, in what it said was a “highly exceptional” move over security worries.

Brexit boss Nigel Farage has warned that the scandal over the dropping of charges against suspected spies for Communist China could fundamentally undermine the intelligence relationship between Britain and the United States.

A popular Korean TikTok influencer has been murdered, and the alleged killer is one of her most dedicated supporters, a man in his 50’s who had donated more than $70,000 to the social media starlet.

Twenty-five years after we opened our markets to China, Beijing celebrated the anniversary by closing its own markets.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s response to the Gaza ceasefire deal on Thursday was tepid and sour, expressing doubt that anything less than the creation of a Palestinian state would bring peace.

The NBA is finally launching its first games in China since 2019 and has pledged to “learn” how to bend to Chinese communist rule.

President calls China’s new export controls “hostile,” says U.S. will retaliate with trade measures.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Thursday announced more restrictions on the export of rare earth minerals, crucial for manufacturing semiconductors, electric vehicles (EVs), green energy products, and other key technologies.

It was 25 years ago today President Bill Clinton signed the law granting permanent normal trading relations (PNTR) with China—an action that had catastrophic consequences for American workers.

Chinese state media confirmed the arrival of Premier Li Qiang, the country’s second most powerful politician, to North Korea on Thursday, in preparation for a parade on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of the country’s communist “Workers’ Party of Korea” (WPK).

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said President Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize if he convinces China to renounce the use of force against Taiwan.

The British government is facing accusations of sabotaging the prosecution of two alleged spies for China for fear of angering the communist regime in Beijing.

Chinese government records list left-wing billionaire Neville Roy Singham as a corporate officer of Thoughtworks’ Chinese subsidiary, Thoughtworks Beijing, as recently as June 17, 2025, despite claims that he resigned from Thoughtworks in 2017.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) weighed in on the possibility of using tariff revenue to bailout farmers by saying that “we need to do something to help the soybean farmers” since they
