Sunday, September 20
China’s Ministry of State Security has accused overseas intelligence agencies of smuggling rare earth materials, just days after Beijing agreed to review export licence applications for the sensitive metals following trade talks with the United States, Bloomberg reported citing a post on WeChat.In a post published on its official WeChat account on Friday, the spy agency said: “In recent years, foreign espionage and intelligence agencies and their agents have attempted to collude with and incite unlawful people in the country to steal our rare earth-related items by means of mail delivery, posing a serious danger to our national security.”While no specific country was named, the message underlined growing anxiety in Beijing over the global race to control supply chains of rare earth e
