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EU pushes China to ease rare earth export controls

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On Tuesday, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič on the sidelines of a World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Paris.
Some context: Beijing’s been pushing hard for a Sino-European reset, but slow progress on a growi...