China’s hunt for US tungsten escalates global critical minerals race
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Martha Muir, Camilla Hodgson, Wenjie Ding
10d ago· 2 min readNews
Effort has driven up prices and prompted calls to restrict sales of a vital national security resource to overseas buyers
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