India stands poised to become a key player in the global rare-earth supply chain as the Donald Trump-Xi Jinping summit buys a one-year respite from China’s export controls and decade-long monoply, offering New Delhi a window to build its refining, magnet-making and downstream capabilities, according to a recent analysis in The Diplomat.

India has significant raw-material potential- its beach-sand deposits contain rich reserves of monazite, bastnaesite, and other rare-earth minerals, but the country’s processing capacity and environmental rules have lagged. That is now changing, says Jianli Yang in the magazine which reports on events across the Asia-Pacific region.

“With strong political will and a growing technological ecosystem, India could soon emerge as the third pillar – alongside t

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