Five decades after the creation of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the wake of the Arab oil embargo, the United States is facing a new threat to its economic, energy, and national security that calls for similarly decisive action: the weaponization of mineral supply chains by China. The time has come to create a Strategic Minerals Reserve.

Beijing’s control of the minerals that are the essential inputs to every device, technology, and weapons system our economy and military rely on far exceeds the high-water mark of OPEC’s control of global oil supplies.

Under the administrations of Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Beijing has deployed its minerals weapon, slashing or altogether cutting off the supply of minerals essential to the production of everything from semiconductors and

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