Country & Region Analysis
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For China, Minerals Were, Are and Will Always Be Strategic
For China, minerals have always been strategic, today they sit at the core of its vision of technological power and national security. This piece explains how Beijing built its dominance in critical minerals and why that matters for geopolitical mining in the coming decade.
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RESourceEU: Is Europe finally moving beyond form on critical minerals?
With RESourceEU, Brussels is trying to turn the Critical Raw Materials Act into operational reality: finance, joint purchasing, stockpiling, a new Raw Materials Centre. Our analysis looks at what is genuinely new, what remains form rather than substance, and why Europe’s invisible block around mining still matters.
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America’s 2025 National Security Strategy: When Economic Power and Critical Minerals Move to the Center
America’s 2025 National Security Strategy hard wires economic power, supply chains and critical minerals into U.S. security doctrine. This article looks at how that shift changes the map for mining, midstream and resource countries in the first technological revolution.