How China hopes to secure its supply chain for critical minerals

When China announced back in July that it was restricting exports of germanium and gallium, it was a reminder of the leverage that China holds in the global supply chain for critical minerals, a group of 50 materials determined by the US government to be of high strategic importance. A sodium-ion ba...

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Published inMIT Technology Review.com
Main Author Yang, Zeyi
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Technology Review, Inc 13.09.2023
Subjects
Climate change
Cobalt
Critical minerals
Gallium
Germanium
He Jiankui
International trade
Internet
Lithium
Minerals
Nickel
Quartz
Semiconductors
Social networks
Sodium-ion batteries
Strategic materials
Supply chains
United States > US
China
Zimbabwe
Indonesia
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Summary:When China announced back in July that it was restricting exports of germanium and gallium, it was a reminder of the leverage that China holds in the global supply chain for critical minerals, a group of 50 materials determined by the US government to be of high strategic importance. A sodium-ion battery insulates you from the lithium supply chain uncertainty and from [that of] nickel and cobalt. At the massive auto show in Munich last week, German brands like Volkswagen were feeling the competition from Chinese electric-car companies. (Wall Street Journal $)3. (Wall Street Journal $) 5.
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