Editor’s Note: What a difference a delay makes! All eyes were on the UK this week, although be warned that the constant flashing and buzzing may induce seizures. One thing is (un)clear: as we go to the virtual press nobody has any idea what comes next. Short version: Boris Johnson’s bid to force through […]
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U.S. MINING “SUPER ROYALTY REFORM” WILL HAND CHINA A LOT MORE THAN RARE EARTHS FOR LEVERAGE
By Larry Reaugh, CEO, American Manganese, Inc. In my previous piece published by The Economic Standard, I recommended that the U.S. introduce “Flow-Through Funding” to kick start exploration of critical and rare earth metals, for which the U.S. is presently dependent on imports, most notably […]
IN THE ARCTIC RESOURCE WARS, GREENLAND IS A HOT PROPERTY
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Imagine in some parallel universe, the President orders his national security team to make an offer to buy Greenland. The offer is drawn up, the demarche made, the Danish official receiving it is suitably shocked. […]
From Trade War to Tech War: Will the ‘Interim U.S.-China Trade Deal’ Contain a Ticking Tech Time Bomb?
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor “There is also something fundamentally wrong with the interim deal… That arrangement boosts America’s sale of primary products, a badge of a basic economy, at the cost of ceding high-tech leadership.” That’s the closing note in […]
The Tech Wars Heat Up: U.S. Makes National Security Declarations to Spur Rare Earths Development
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Forget the trade war – the tech war is heating up. After weeks of Chinese threats that it could cut off U.S. access to the essential technology materials known as rare earths, the Trump Administration today took a counter-action of its own. Jennifer […]
From Trade War to Tech War: At the G20, Forging a Common Front on Critical Minerals
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor The Chinese threat to ban exports of rare earths – a group of 17 elements used in everything from smart phones to smart bombs, wind turbines and F-35 jet fighters – has highlighted the dangers of the […]
Deep Fake Part Deux: Meet Katie Jones, Digital Spy
By Daniel McGroarty TES GeoPolicy Editor In April, I commented on a DefenseOne article about an AI-enabled capability called GANs – generative adversarial networks – and the risk that GANs could be used to fabricate “deep fakes,” computer images planted in Google Earth, for instance, depicting geological features that don’t exist, or […]
It’s 2050: What’s for Dinner?
It’s 2050: What’s for Dinner? By Dan McGroarty, GeoPolicy Editor For those of us who aren’t sure what’s in the fridge that can be microwaved into tonight’s dinner, or if we can use our indecision as a justification for take-out (again), worrying about what’s for dinner in the Year 2050 is a […]
MMV & Novartis: Solving market failure while saving children’s lives – the case of malaria
By Dr David Reddy, Chief Executive Officer of the Medicines for Malaria Venture, and Dr Harald Nusser, Head of Novartis Social Business In the 1990s, treating children with malaria in Africa was a grueling experience. The parasite had become resistant to the most common antimalarial treatments, and death rates were climbing – fast. […]
Sweet Deal! Trump Trade Doctrine Will Save Sugar Farmers
By Andrew Langer, President of the Institute for Liberty With the announcement that Fiat Chrysler is set to build a new plant in the Detroit Metro Area, it is clear that America’s shifting posture on trade is working—and with that, a crystallization of just what the “Trump Trade Doctrine” is. For the […]