U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, the State Department said, in what will be the first in-person meeting of the two counterparts.

The meeting takes place on the sidelines of a Southeast Asian summit, where Washington and Beijing are each attempting to exert their influence.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he’s working on setting up a meeting with his Chinese counterpart at a summit in Malaysia this week, the first in-person session between the two and a possible prelude to a presidential summit.

That's how much U.S. farmland Chinese-owned entities hold, according to the Agriculture Department, amounting to an area about the size of Los Angeles. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the administration will work to ban sales of farmland to buyers from China and other countries of concern,

MP Materials unveiled a multibillion-dollar deal with the U.S. government on Thursday to boost output of rare earths and help loosen a stranglehold by top producer China on the minerals vital for military applications,

The Defense Department on Thursday became the largest shareholder in MP Materials, which owns the only rare earth mine in the U.S., amid a surge in demand for rare earths mined in the U.S. as China has curbed its rare earth exports amid a trade war with the U.