World economic and finance chiefs want an off-ramp from the worst global trade crisis in a century. This week they’re heading toward its epicenter.

China recently clamped down on exporting rare earth minerals that are key to the worldwide semiconductor, aerospace manufacturing, and auto industries.

An escalating trade war with the United States will boost China's efforts to lower satellite manufacturing and launch costs by substituting domestic technology for foreign parts as Beijing races to catch up with Elon Musk's Starlink,