Quote from: slapper on July 06, 2025, 07:24:00 PM

Every country wants green tech, electric cars, and cheap gadgets. But nearly all of this depends on minerals like lithium, nickel, copper. And China controls most of it. They buy mines everywhere, use government money to outbid others, and even let their companies lose money if it means locking up supplies for the future. They even run the factories that turn raw minerals into finished products

Fact: China processes 90%+ of the worlds rare earths (69% in mining production). For cobalt, lithium, copper, it is frequently more than half

Now Western countries (US, Europe, Australia, etc.) are worried. They talk about “friendship” and “safe supply chains”, but what are they really doing? Mostly, they throw money at big companies or make new trade groups, but still depend on China’s factories and technology

At the same time, local people in Africa, Asia, and South America are tired of outsiders (East or West) controlling their resources. Sometimes they just take over mines and switch partners

The world is rushing for more minerals, but we might just repeat old mistakes: dependency, pollution, debt, broken promises. Only this time, it’s not just oil, but everything from phone batteries to wind turbines

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It's not a surprise or secret anymore that china is super leading in not only the production of raw materials into finished goods & services but almost in everything also.
This is mostly because of the effort and determination they are putting in what ever they are doing to achieve a tangible result.
A child of 7-8years have start working in the production and manufacturing sector which makes them to be super expert when they grow up.
So with this big mentality of china's I don't see them dropping down soon as one of the best country's so far in everything if they aren't the number one.