New Delhi, Nov. 25 -- Between September 2024 and April 2025, China imposed strict export controls on minerals essential to semiconductors and green-energy technologies.

Fresh curbs announced last month have only heightened Western unease, exposing how deeply China dominates critical segments of these supply chains.

Last month, it added more curbs. Such restrictions continue to unnerve the West, as they reveal China's single-handed control over crucial parts of the supply chain of such minerals.

There has been much talk of the need to diversify production and refining of key metals like lithium and rare-earths, but as this article explains, in the longer term, the bottleneck created by a few countries' dominance in production will ease ...