How did the United States become so dependent on China for critical minerals? @NCUSCR
How did the United States become so dependent on China for critical minerals? @NCUSCR
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
Because for a long time, it was a very good deal.

Cory Combs, head of supply chain research at Trivium China, joins us to explain how decades of rational economic choices built the interdependencies now at the center of U.S.-China competition — and why unwinding them is far harder than it looks.
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How did the United States become so dependent on China for critical minerals?

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