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The New Colonial Frontier: How Critical Mineral Mercantilism Threatens to Enslave the Global South's Future

Critical minerals are replacing oil as the strategic resource of the 21st century, forcing a historic shift from open markets to state-controlled supply chains and mercantilism. This new age of mineral geopolitics exposes the vulnerabilities of developing economies like India to the structural dominance engineered by established powers, threatening to lock them into a neo-colonial dependency on imported value.