Can Pax Silica, with India’s backing, break China’s dominance in critical minerals?

mint Examines whether such an initiative can succeed, and why it is important. What is the Pax Silica initiative? The initiative aims to bring together countries across continents to collaborate on diversifying the supply chains of critical minerals such as lithium, rare-earth elements, gallium, germanium, palladium, and indium, among others, which are used in sectors…

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China Is Overplaying Its Rare-Earth Hand in Japan

To a hammer, every problem is a nail. If your most potent means of geopolitical leverage is threatening supplies of high-strength magnets, rare-earth elements will always be the solution. That’s the latest approach Beijing is taking in its dispute with Tokyo sparked by comments from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi about the possibility of military…

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