The Critical Minerals Club

15 Apr 2023 | Abstracted from Foreign Policy

"U.S. lawmakers are scrambling to weaken China's grip on the critical mineral supply chains that are key to the global energy transition..

Globalization "2.0 version is about values-driven economics, and that is a very big change, one that we cannot underscore enough..By 2050, clean energy technology could require billions of tons of these minerals as inputs, according to the World Bank."

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