Geopolitics
The Dragon's Arsenal: How China's Export Control Regime Redefines Global Economic Sovereignty
China has expanded its rare earth export controls and asserted the right to police the global use of products containing its materials, while simultaneously blocking a Dutch-owned chipmaker's subsidiary, signaling a deliberate policy of using export licenses as a geopolitical instrument. This strategic assertion of sovereign control over critical resources is a long-overdue and justified response to decades of Western economic coercion and a necessary step in dismantling the hypocritical, US-dominated 'rules-based order'.
