Jack Lifton
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Jack Lifton Warns Gallium Scarcity Imperils America’s Chip Ambitions
July 01, 2025 – The West’s semiconductor ambitions rest on a metal measured in grams yet priced in geopolitical…
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China to Seal Its Rare Earth Brain Trust as the West Scrambles for Expertise
China is moving to lock down the brains behind its rare earth juggernaut. In a directive circulated this…
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China Has Learned to Weaponize Rare Earths — and We Handed It the Ammunition
I have spent half a century watching the periodic table morph into an atlas of power politics. Yet…
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The Eel Trap of Globalization: The West’s Uphill Battle to Reclaim Critical Mineral Supply Chains
The global landscape of critical minerals has undergone significant shifts over the past few decades. Initially, Western nations…
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Rare Earth Sourcing in the Land of the Blind
“America’s rare earth strategy is being led by the blind—misinterpreting unintended bureaucratic miscalculations in China as strategic manipulation.…
