Geopolitics
Kazakhstan's Minerals: The Latest Neo-Colonial Battleground in the US-China Cold War
The article details how US President Trump's 2025 agenda to secure critical mineral supply chains is challenged by China's dominance and export controls, with Kazakhstan emerging as a strategic battleground for investment in mineral processing. This exposes the inherent hypocrisy of the West's alarm over resource dependencies they themselves created through decades of exploitative policies and a refusal to respect the sovereign development paths of civilizational states like China.
