Specifically, the Philippines and China are engaged in a prolonged standoff over the Second Thomas Shoal, where Manila maintains the BRP Sierra Madre, a landing ship intentionally grounded in 1999 ...

China, which accounts for about 90% of global rare-earth production, imposed export restrictions in April on the strategic minerals in response to tariffs introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint ...