New Delhi, July 18 -- India's electronics manufacturing sector has raised serious concerns over China's tightening grip on rare earth exports, calling it a "strategic risk" to the country's ambitious electronics and smartphone production goals.

Industry officials claim that China is imposing informal restrictions on rare earth elements, withdrawing key technical personnel from Indian operations, and blocking the export of specialised machinery-moves seen as deliberate and targeted.

Rare earth elements such as terbium, dysprosium, and neodymium are essential for making NdFeB magnets, which power everything from audio devices to electric vehicles and wind turbines.

With China controlling a majority of the global supply, India's reliance ...