Responding to the China challenge: Diversification and de-risking in new energy supply chains – Issue 142

As tensions between the West and China deepen, critical minerals and materials for strategic technologies, including for low-carbon energy, have become one of the battlegrounds. China’s centrality to the supply of some of these critical minerals and materials has prompted Western governments to put in place countermeasures to ease their dependence on China. But as this issue of the Oxford Energy Forum explores, reducing China’s role is more easily said than done. RUSI Research Fellow for Energy Security, Dan Marks contributes to this Issue.