The American president ordered the launch ofa review aimed at precisely determining the points of dependence of strategic American industries to raw materials or components from abroad, and in particular from China. The stated objective of this approach is to be able to implement alternative national sources of supply where necessary, more particularly concerning minerals from rare earths and other minerals essential to the mining industry. Defense, particularly in the field of aeronautics and batteries, but also semiconductors used for 5G technology, artificial intelligence or quantum computing.
The fact is, the United States, like the Europeans, today has a strong economic, technological and security dependence on elements imported from potentially vulnerable sources, such as semiconductors from Taiwan, or potentially hostile ones, such as rare earths from China. Under the cover of a globalized economy, companies with a strategic activity have agreed to source components or elements deemed non-strategic taken in isolation from outside the United States, or outside Europe for Europeans.
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