China's rare earth monopoly threatens global climate transition, warns expert

Belem [Brazil], November 15 (ANI): China’s tightening control over critical minerals has turned into one of the most debated issues at COP30 in Belem, as leading strategic affairs expert Jagannath Panda warned that the world’s clean-energy transition cannot remain dependent on supplies controlled “overwhelmingly by a single authoritarian state."In a detailed piece published in Turkiye Today following his visit to the summit as an observer, Panda said that rare earths, lithium, copper and other minerals essential for renewable technologies have become “political instruments embedded in the strategic ambitions of the Communist Party of China (CPC)."Panda wrote that China’s dominance, nearly 60 per cent of global rare earth production and around 90 per cent of refining capacity, gives Beijing