from 21st Century Wire:

Africa: China’s rising—and the United States is falling.

The race for Africa is now on. The world’s two premier superpowers, the U.S. and China, are in a real race for the control of “critical minerals”. Both countries need these resources to power their move to A.I. and the Big Data economy, and Elon Musk and Klaus Schwab’s globalist “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” For this, ‘Green’ minerals and metals are essential scale up operations, as well as met decarbonisation or ‘Net Zero’ climate goal. These includes lithium, cobalt, copper, gold, bauxite, chromium, high purity iron ore, platinum group metals, and other rare earth metals. Through its efforts, China has already managed to gain majority control over the mining and processing of rare earths.