"Rare-earth metals are the prize in the trade wars underway between the key suppliers of AI solutions to the market," Maria Zakharova pointed out MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. Western elites seek to gain preempted access to rare-earth metals in the countries of the global majority by pursuing a neo-colonial policy that borders on robbery, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an op-ed for the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily titled "Neo-coloniAIism." "Rare-earth metals, whose reserves