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March 31, 2025

Trade
Critical Minerals Executive Order Leverages DFC and National Security Authorities

A brief analysis of the recent use of national security and foreign policy tools to promote domestic mineral production. 

Mine

April 4, 2025

RealEcon
Why Sub-Saharan Africa Matters for U.S. Economic and National Security

Building relationships with the region, rather than transactional neocolonialism, is the best route for strengthening the United States’ critical mineral supply chains.

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Angolan President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco

March 13, 2025

Arctic
What Would Greenland’s Independence Mean for U.S. Interests?

The island’s residents have voted in favor of a party that seeks gradual independence from Denmark. But Greenland has attracted significant attention from President Trump, who sees the island’s consi…

A man passes a Danish flag ahead of Greenland’s general election in the island’s capital, Nuuk.

April 18, 2025

Daily News Brief
Saudi-Iranian Meeting

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.  Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. …

Chief of Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, welcomes Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, in Tehran, Iran, April 17, 2025.

March 19, 2025

Democratic Republic of Congo
The President’s Inbox Recap: Conflict in Eastern Congo

The resurgence of Rwanda-backed insurgents in eastern Congo has reignited a decades-old conflict over ethnic rivalries, mineral wealth, and political representation.

M23 Troops in Goma, Congo

August 15, 2024

China Strategy Initiative
The US Needs More than a Critical Minerals Stockpile, It Needs Market Infrastructure

Last month, Ganfeng Lithium, China’s largest lithium producer and refiner, announced plans to establish a $1.1 billion trading desk “to reduce the risk of market fluctuations” associated with its gro…

Employees monitor screens showing real-time footages of mining operations in a ground control centre, at Xiaobaodang Coal Mine, during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Shenmu of Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

April 14, 2025

Trade
The Contentious U.S.-China Trade Relationship

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China that began in his first administration has snowballed into greater tensions between the world’s biggest economies, but experts say completely decoupling …

 A worker works on the production line of a high-end silk textile enterprise in Fuyang city, East China's Anhui province, March 5, 2025.

October 17, 2014

China
Rare Earth Elements and National Security

Eugene Gholz examines the national security and economic consequences of China's central role in the global rare earths market.

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April 9, 2025

Daily News Brief
Trade War Hits Sharp Escalation

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day.  Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. …

Workers work on a production line manufacturing smart automotive central control navigation products at a factory of Beidou Intelligent Connected Vehicle Technology Co. (BICV) in the High Tech Industrial Development Zone in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China April 9, 2025.