{"id":659609,"date":"2026-03-16T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/659609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:58:25","slug":"chinas-supply-chain-meets-the-wall-of-african-resource-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/659609\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s supply chain meets the wall of African resource nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resource-rich African nations are increasingly asserting control over critical minerals to maximise domestic returns, sending global prices soaring and exerting pressure on Chinese supply chains.<\/p>\n

The country had originally planned to impose the ban in 2027 to encourage more local value-added processing of the mineral but the government brought the ban forward as miners ramped up production and exports of the unrefined output.<\/p>\n

In a post-cabinet briefing on March 3, Zimbabwean Mines Minister Polite Kambamura said the ban was brought forward as companies sought to beat the deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was … an increased appetite for lithium export permits, and the rationale behind it was to export as much product as possible before the notice period,\u201d Kambamura said.<\/p>\n

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08:58<\/p>\n

What are rare earths, and why is China\u2019s dominance facing global pushback<\/p>\n

What are rare earths, and why is China\u2019s dominance facing global pushback<\/p>\n

Chinese battery producers, which rely on Zimbabwe for about 15 per cent of their total lithium concentrate supply, were hit particularly hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resource-rich African nations are increasingly asserting control over critical minerals to maximise domestic returns, sending global prices soaring…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":659610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[7779,43157,64,74,22165,63643,269833,79,30987,279392,9996,279391,79303,125103,180609,69845,67,132,68,2238],"class_list":["post-659609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-africa","tag-benchmark-mineral-intelligence","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-economy","tag-ghana","tag-house-mountain-partners","tag-indonesia","tag-jiangxi","tag-lithium","tag-malawi","tag-namibia","tag-tanzania","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-zimbabwe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116238739543367010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}