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Tag: Technological competition

Rare earth elements: why there is no green future without China

14 March 2021 Online editor Analysis and comment

Rare earth elements (REEs) are vital for communications, the green energy transition and defence. They are produced almost exclusively in China, and it will be very difficult to challenge China’s dominance of the global REE market.

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Russia, China sign memorandum on lunar research station

10 March 2021 Online editor Foreign policy, trade and diplomacy, In the news

It’s reported that Russia and China signed an agreement on Tuesday [9 March 2021] to set up an international lunar research station. The project aims to promote international cooperation and offer equal access to any nation that wants to take part.

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Most read this week

  • Once was a hegemon: Australia and the decline of the US 3 June 2021
  • The pandemic and the limits of realism (Seth A Johnston) 3 July 2020
  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • Australia’s foreign policy: Resurgent realism or the survival of multilateralism? 5 July 2020
  • Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war? 25 March 2023

Most read in the last year

  • An American theocracy: the advance of Christian nationalism 26 January 2021
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  • What’s the role of hydrogen in the clean energy transition? (UCS) 29 December 2020
  • America’s proposed Taiwan Policy Act could be a game-changing act of provocation 20 September 2022
  • The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth 8 February 2021

Latest: AUKUS

An Open Letter to the Australian Government from concerned scholars regarding the AUKUS Agreement

26 May 2023

An open letter signed by concerned university academics argues that the public case for AUKUS has yet to be made, and calls on the government not to proceed with the development of a nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) capability for Australia until issues raised are addressed.

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Latest by Mike: Climate Crisis

Facing “Hothouse Earth”, will governments continue half-a-century of inaction?

7 August 2022

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Mike Scrafton is a regularly-published writer on Australian and international affairs. Read more about Mike here.

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