“Sustainability, equity and security are all at risk in the rush to break China’s dominance over their production.”
- I can think of one entity which wouldn’t want China’s dominance of rare earth production broken and it’s not the DRC.
“China’s ascendancy is the result of forward thinking by the country’s leadership”
- Seems strangely flattering since it doesn’t seem like it adds anything to the arguments or the context.
“it is not in the interests of any nation to partner with just one other country or group of countries”
- I believe this is explicitly a CCP talking point (link below for reference). Obviously, other people might say it but it seems sort of… suspect? Like the article purports to make a moralistic claim about exploitation and then goes into pure realpolitik. In my opinion that’s the sort of thing you’d only say if you were wearing social justice as a mask and didn’t actually believe in it yourself.
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_1102...