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The US has hosted its first critical minerals summit aimed at challenging China’s dominance of the global supply chain for rare earth elements. But political economist Stefan Zylinski warns Global South countries are likely to bear the greatest cost from any Globan North plan.

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$2025.6.9 By controlling 99% of China’s rare earth resources, Xi Jinping is leveraging this dominance to divide the West, favoring the EU while sidelining the U.S., in an effort to fracture transatlantic unity. But the strategy goes deeper, fueling internal U.S. discord and exploiting political divides. This is hybrid warfare, designed to weaken democracies as Dictator Xi advances his goal of global dominance.$

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