The mine at the heart of Trump and Xi’s battle for superpower dominance

There are real questions – if any country was fighting a war with advanced weaponry, how long could you sustain it without China?” said Dan Marks, an energy security research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK defence think tank....“What everyone is looking for is how to leverage the defence and energy demand together more effectively; can we create more diversification that way?” said Mr Marks.