Infiltrating the West

Beijing’s ‘Green’ Critical Minerals Campaign Exposes Its Weakness

China’s bid to bind the global South in a green mineral bloc is a scramble to secure shaky ore supplies as U.S. and partners race for China-proof supply chains.
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Beijing’s ‘Green’ Critical Minerals Campaign Exposes Its Weakness
A worker carrying containers next to pools in a mining waste dump area in Monywa, northwestern Myanmar, on Aug. 28, 2013. Ye Aung Thu /AFP via Getty Images
Sean Tseng
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China still sits at the center of the global rare-earth system, but the ground under that monopoly is starting to shift.

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Sean Tseng
Sean Tseng
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Sean Tseng is a Canada-based reporter for The Epoch Times covering U.S.–China relations, CCP politics, trade policy, and emerging technologies including AI and defense. He holds a BASc in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia.