Africa isn’t the only battleground where China has been trying to monopolize the rare earth supply chain. The reason Greenland has been on the Trump administration’s mind at all is because of potential Chinese acquisition or partial ownership of various resource plays in Greenland, including rare earth mines (https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-lobbied-green...).
Africa isn’t the only battleground where China has been trying to monopolize the rare earth supply chain. The reason Greenland has been on the Trump administration’s mind at all is because of potential Chinese acquisition or partial ownership of various resource plays in Greenland, including rare earth mines (https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-lobbied-green...).