Interesting, page-220

Thought provoking posts from both jm69 and Pennie.
Figure 4 reveals the 'baddies' with policies in parallel with the entrenched delaying powers of the oil and gas companies.
Might the relatively ineffectual trade damaging 'sanctions' approach of the USA be seen in the same light?
The resulting recruitment of the alliterative three musketeers, Germanium, Gallium and Graphite, with Tungsten being measured for a uniform, comes as no great surprise.

The best forecasts of the changes arising from the Covid pandemic included attitudinal changes in social and political approaches.
Shedding the "hands-off mindset of the free market orthodoxy" is looking increasingly practical.
Application of the Thatcher/Regan doctrine would appear to have produced two inwardly divided and economically declining countries.

Believe that Amanda, despite the backward-looking policies of the Minerals Council, had previously promoted co-operation and economies of scale within Australian REEs. Encouraging winners combined with central government constructive coercion is becoming a la mode.