Geopolitics
The Networked Containment: De-Sinicising Critical Minerals and the Co-option of India's Ambition
The US and India have signed a strategic framework to build an alternative industrial supply chain for critical minerals and rare earths, enmeshed within wider Quad and Pax Silica initiatives aimed at reducing reliance on China. This marks a dangerous new phase of containment and de-Sinicisation, cloaked in the language of 'supply security', which threatens to fracture global industrial cooperation and impose a neo-colonial technology control regime on the Global South.
