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Themes:🧠AI Chip Bottleneck 🚢Red Sea Escalation ⚓Shipping Lane Fragmentation 🏗India Infrastructure Supercycle

6 results for "Critical Minerals" · Economic+Health+Political+Disaster

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EconomicUpdate🇺🇸United States 🇿🇦South Africa6d ago

The United States and South Africa conducted their highest-level bilateral meeting this year in Johannesburg to negotiate critical minerals resource deals, according to attendees quoted by the Financial Times. The meeting reflects a strategic recalibration despite strained relations following President Trump's accusations of 'white genocide' against South Africa, signaling that competition with China's control of global critical minerals markets is driving the diplomatic engagement.

5.5/10·Oil Price (Energy Intel)·Johannesburg, Gauteng

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EconomicUpdate13d ago

An analysis of the United States' critical minerals initiative and its implications for the Philippines. The article questions whether Manila receives equitable benefits from the arrangement compared to US strategic interests, raising concerns about resource economics and bilateral trade relationships.

4.5/10·The Diplomat

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PoliticalUpdate8d ago

The New Critical Minerals Map Fears of Chinese and U.S. trade retaliation have spawned deals that exclude both powers.

3.1/10·Foreign Policy

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HealthUpdate🇿🇲ZM 🇺🇸United States9d ago

Zambia says US health funding talks stalled over minerals, data terms Zambia's government has said that talks on a US health funding deal stalled due to contentious terms linked to proposed critical minerals deals and data sharing concerns.

3.1/10·AfricaNews·Mpongwe

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PoliticalUpdate🇺🇸United States 🇨🇳China5d ago

The United States is shifting strategy to fund local African processing and mining infrastructure, after recognising it cannot yet process the critical minerals it is racing to secure from the continent to counter China. Tom Haslett, managing director of policy for critical minerals at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), said that unlike China, which had “significant industry backing for both processing and downstream manufacturing”, the US and Europe did not yet have...

2.5/10·South China Morning Post

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PoliticalUpdate🇺🇸United States 🇨🇳China6d ago

Officials discussed resources investments as Washington tries to break China’s control of critical minerals production

2.5/10·Financial Times Economics·Washington, District of Columbia

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