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Apr 23, 2026
Critical minerals and cyber operations
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Critical elements and rare earth elements REEs are no longer commodities; they are strategic dependencies. Chinaʼs dominance in processing and refining provides it with enormous geopolitical leverage over other industrialized economies.
Geopolitical competition over mining and refining critical elements and REEs is accelerating. Competition to mine them will almost certainly expand into the Arctic, Greenland, Antarctica, the seabed, and space. These emerging arenas introd
Critical elements and rare earth elements REEs are no longer commodities; they are strategic dependencies. Chinaʼs dominance in processing and refining provides it with enormous geopolitical leverage over other industrialized economies.
Geopolitical competition over mining and refining critical elements and REEs is accelerating. Competition to mine them will almost certainly expand into the Arctic, Greenland, Antarctica, the seabed, and space. These emerging arenas introd
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