{"id":54369,"date":"2025-04-27T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54369\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:10:09","slug":"could-us-dr-congo-minerals-for-security-deal-threaten-chinas-mining-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54369\/","title":{"rendered":"Could US-DR Congo \u2018minerals-for-security\u2019 deal threaten China\u2019s mining dominance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a> (DRC) and the United States to forge a \u201cminerals-for-security\u201d deal to help end violence in the country may threaten China\u2019s mining dominance, but analysts say there are still many challenges ahead.In a proposal to cease hostilities in the country\u2019s east, which worsened this year following the capture of strategic cities by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group<\/a>, Kinshasa has offered the US access to its vast mineral resources.In exchange, the DRC is seeking security guarantees and military support from the US, and hopes to attract American<\/a> investment to reduce its reliance on China<\/a>.Under the arrangement, Washington will use both diplomatic and economic tools to broker peace in exchange for critical minerals in the DRC, opening up a new battlefront with China, which dominates the mining industry<\/a> in the Central African nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident [Felix] Tshisekedi and I discussed a minerals deal and charted a path forward,\u201d Massad Boulos, Donald Trump\u2019s adviser for Africa, said last week at a briefing about his recent trip to Kinshasa.<\/p>\n

Experts said the agreement with the DRC was potentially modelled on China\u2019s 2007 \u201cminerals-for-infrastructure\u201d deal, where Chinese companies were to build infrastructure for the DRC in exchange for critical minerals<\/a> \u2013 including copper and cobalt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United States to forge a \u201cminerals-for-security\u201d deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[28899,28898,1395,28901,28900,28904,18333,28903,28906,7134,28902,2945,28905,1166,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-54369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-alphamin-resources","9":"tag-angola","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-companies","12":"tag-chris-berry","13":"tag-cobalt","14":"tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","15":"tag-drc","16":"tag-joseph-cihunda","17":"tag-kinshasa","18":"tag-m23-rebel-group","19":"tag-rwanda","20":"tag-southern-africa-resource-watch","21":"tag-trump-administration","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114409153907769216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}