{"id":108173,"date":"2025-10-26T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/trump-administration-works-to-break-chinas-rare-earth-mineral-stranglehold-on-africa-108173"},"modified":"2025-10-26T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:00:43","slug":"trump-administration-works-to-break-chinas-rare-earth-mineral-stranglehold-on-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/trump-administration-works-to-break-chinas-rare-earth-mineral-stranglehold-on-africa-108173","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration works to break China\u2019s rare earth mineral stranglehold on Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The State Department has told Fox News Digital it is working to reduce the “national security” threat to the U.S. from China\u2019s domination of the rare earth minerals market, with new signs that Africa<\/a> can assist Washington in breaking Beijing\u2019s stranglehold on this vital sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 17 rare earth elements (REE) are metals “critical for both human and national security,” the Brookings Institution wrote in 2022, adding, “They are used in electronics (computers, televisions and smartphones), in renewable energy technology (wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicle batteries), and in national defense (jet engines, missile guidance and defense systems, satellites, GPS equipment and more).”<\/p>\n

China is reported by Brookings to be responsible for\u00a060% of global extraction\u00a0of rare earth minerals and 85% of processing capacity.<\/p>\n

TRUMP CALLS XI\u2019S RARE EARTH MOVE A \u2018BAD MOMENT\u2019 \u2014 WHY IT MATTERS FOR US NATIONAL SECURITY, CHINA TIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

But although Beijing has secured contracts in African countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to ship minerals, including cobalt east to China<\/a>, the continent has vast untapped resources. And the African Union\u2019s Minerals Development Center stated recently that new huge specialist rare earth mines are due to come online by 2029 in Tanzania, Angola, Malawi and South Africa, and potentially yield almost 10% of the world\u2019s supply.<\/p>\n

This is leading the Trump administration to step forward with new attempts to expand the U.S. presence in Africa\u2019s mining trade. Just this week, a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, “The administration\u2019s approach prioritizes partnerships with African nations to ensure their minerals flow west, not east to China.”<\/p>\n

In Africa, China is on Washington\u2019s threat radar, with the spokesperson continuing, “China\u2019s dominance in global mineral supply chains \u2014 specifically in processing and refining \u2014 is a threat to both U.S. and African interests. Beijing\u2019s state-directed strategies exploit Africa\u2019s natural resources, consolidate control over upstream mining assets, perpetuate opaque governance structures, degrade local environments and create economic dependencies that undermine regional stability.”<\/p>\n

Various sources say that the U.S. currently imports some 70% of all the rare earth elements it needs from China.<\/p>\n

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jim Risch<\/a>, R-Idaho, told Fox News Digital that Beijing poses a threat on this issue:\u00a0“Relying on China for critical minerals needed for a modern economy is a top national security risk\u00a0that President Biden left unaddressed for four years. Under President Trump\u2019s leadership, we can secure new sources in Africa, strengthen our partnerships there, and ensure America\u2019s defense is never dependent on our adversaries.”<\/p>\n

CHINA’S RARE EARTH TECH OBSESSION ENSNARES US RESIDENT AS CCP LOOKS TO MAINTAIN STRANGLEHOLD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The administration is trying to move more into Africa, with the State Department spokesperson adding,\u00a0“The United States is committed to making targeted investments in infrastructure to facilitate the export of minerals from Africa to global markets. A prime example is the Lobito Corridor, which provides an alternative to Chinese-controlled transportation routes for minerals from Africa\u2019s Copperbelt to the Atlantic Ocean.”<\/p>\n

The administration recently said they would continue to pledge a $550 million loan to the development of the Lobito Corridor, an 800-mile-long railway and infrastructure to the link\u00a0mineral-rich\u00a0regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia with Angola\u2019s Atlantic coast and easy shipping access to the U.S.<\/p>\n

The State Department <\/a>spokesperson went on to say that one of the main benefits of the peace deal to end a 30-year-long war signed between the DRC and Rwanda in the Oval Office in June is better access to minerals, adding,\u00a0“The bilateral agreement between the U.S. and DRC is designed to open the door for new U.S. and U.S.-aligned investments in strategic mining projects across the DRC.”<\/p>\n

It is a new dawn of opportunity for the U.S. in Africa, analysts including Dr. Gracelin Baskaran says. Baskaran, director of the Critical Minerals Security Program at Washington\u2019s Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Fox News Digital, “Africa is the last great frontier of mineral discovery. It has long been undervalued in global mineral exploration, even though it delivers some of the highest returns per dollar invested.”<\/p>\n

IS TRUMP CONSIDERING BOLD AFRICA PLAY TO PUSH BACK ON CHINA, RUSSIA AND ISLAMIC TERRORISTS?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The [African] continent\u2019s share of worldwide exploration spending has steadily dropped \u2014 from 16% in 2004 to only 10.4% in 2024,” added Baskaran. “This decline is particularly striking, given that Sub-Saharan Africa<\/a> is the world\u2019s most cost-efficient region for mineral exploration, with a mineral-value-to-exploration-spending ratio of 0.8 \u2014 well ahead of Australia (0.5), Canada (0.6) and Latin America (0.3).”<\/p>\n

“Despite its immense geological promise and a landmass triple the size of Australia and Canada combined, those two countries captured 15.9%\u00a0and 19.8% of global exploration spending in 2024 \u2014 far exceeding Africa\u2019s total share.”<\/p>\n

Baskaran says the U.S. can exploit another area in Africa as well, “China rarely engages in mapping or exploration. The Chinese model generally acquires projects once they are under development and\/or nearing production. This offers a real opportunity for the United States and its allies. Even countries with long mining legacies \u2014 Zambia and the DRC \u2014 have barely scratched the surface, with less than half their land mapped. With targeted investments in geological mapping and early-stage project development, the United States and its allies could establish a much stronger presence across the continent.”<\/p>\n

Where to drop U.S. miners\u2019 boots on the ground? “In terms of heavy rare earth minerals in Africa, Namibia is a country that presents an alternative to China in terms of supply,” analyst C. G\u00e9raud Neema Byamungu from the independent China-Global South Project (CGSP) told Fox News Digital, adding, “Namibia\u2019s Lofdal project is a major one.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/trump-administration-works-break-chinas-rare-earth-mineral-stranglehold-africa <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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