US & China
China to Suspend Some Rare-Earth Curbs and US Chip Firm Probes
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting in Busan, South Korea on Oct. 30.
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China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare-earth metals and terminate investigations targeting US companies in the semiconductor supply chain, the White House announced.