“Zoe Oysul, a senior policy analyst with SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, said the Chinese Communist Party is continuing to ‘weaponize’ China’s monopolization of the critical minerals supply chain. Oysul said it’s important that affluent countries like the U.S., which generally has high environmental and labor standards, begin developing more projects within their own borders.
‘This is only the most recent move in a frightening trend of America’s and our allies’ largest geopolitical and economic rival leveraging its chokehold over materials essential for defense and commercial production to further its geopolitical aims,’ said Oysul.”
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