The swift approach of Trump’s inauguration has resurrected a once-dead idea – the resource war – among leftist critics of U.S. policy, Russia’s apologists, and Republican politicians lobbying Trump.
An investigation by RFE/RL’s Schemes has found that companies at least partially owned by the Chinese state are feeding critical minerals to Russian suppliers to manufacturers of weapons the Kremlin ...
At a time when the U.S. and China are competing for key resources, Ukraine is a “mineral superpower,” with some of the largest reserves of 117 of the 120 most used minerals in the world ...