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China’s Mineral Chokehold: How Processing Power Became Geopolitical Leverage

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A country can own a mine and still depend on someone else to make its minerals usable.From phones and electric vehicles to advanced machinery and national defense, modern life relies on materials that must be refined, engineered, and tested before they can perform their essential jobs. The most consequential point of control often lies between the deposit and the finished product.China's Mineral ... Read more

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The age of uncontested American economic power is over.For decades, the United States stood at the center of global trade, finance, investment, and monetary influence. Today, China contests that position with the scale of its economy, its command of commercial networks, its expanding financial institutions, and its growing role in the developing world.The Economic Crossover examines the economic
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The postwar order did not simply create prosperity. It created the powers now challenging its exclusive stewardship.After 1945, the United States and its allies built institutions that stabilized currencies, financed reconstruction, opened markets and concentrated authority in Western hands. The system proved durable—but it also accelerated decolonization, industrialization and the rise of states ... Read more

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