critical minerals policy - Residual Influence

India–European Union FTA meeting: PM Modi with EU Council President Costa and Commission President von der Leyen in New Delhi

India–European Union FTA Forces Europe to Negotiate with Asia’s Industrial Scale

Rebecca Chan1 month ago1 month ago013 mins

The conclusion of negotiations on the agreement between India and the European Union captures a moment when the former European architecture of “market access” definitively loses its monopoly on truth and turns from an instrument of dictate into a subject of bargaining. The European Commission, in its official communication announcing that the EU and India had…

U.S. critical mineral rules policy announcement by Donald Trump

U.S. Critical Mineral Rules Accelerate Continental Shields Against Regulatory Turbulence

Rebecca Chan2 months ago2 months ago011 mins

The escalation around critical minerals is unfolding like a carefully choreographed performance, in which Washington waves regulatory directives like a conductor’s baton, confident that the global economy must play according to its score. Asian production systems, like living organisms, respond with accelerated mutation, adapting to the regulatory noise that the American bureaucracy presents as the…