One of the things that President Donald Trump does that the liberal media doesn't really focus on is working on things that aid American interests, investments for jobs and manufacturing, and national security.
He just pulled off another big achievement.
In what’s being hailed as a major win for the Trump administration against Chinese domination of the rare earth minerals market, the U.S. has supported an American company, Virtus Minerals, in developing two major mines producing cobalt and copper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
This is claimed to be the first U.S. rare earth minerals acquisition in the African nation since President Donald Trump announced the Washington Accord last December.
As we reported, Trump signed the Washington Accord, aiming to bring peace between the DRC and Rwanda. He also signed a strategic partnership agreement to help advance America's mineral interests in the region and economic cooperation with the DRC.
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China has been locking up about 80 percent of the DRC's market of cobalt, while prior American leaders have been sitting on their hands. Their cobalt and copper are important for a variety of essential products, from electric cars to piping for plumbing.
American mining company Virtus is, with U.S. support, claiming to be "the first U.S.-owned operator back in the DRC in more than a decade", with its investment in Chemaf, a local cobalt and copper producer with two mining operations, one, Étoile, in Lubumbashi and Mutoshi, in Kolwezi. Together it’s planned the mines will produce a combined 75,000 tonnes of copper, and 20,000 tonnes of cobalt a year. The processing plants are currently under development and will come online next year.
So that should certainly help our interests.
Frans Cronje, president of the Washington-based Yorktown Foundation for Freedom, says the Virtus projects are significant because they show the administration is seriously trying to change the balance in a minerals battle with China.
He told Fox News Digital, "This development signals a more assertive United States effort to compete with China for access to Africa’s critical mineral base, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where cobalt and copper are strategically vital to global energy and defense supply chains."
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Add that to the other news about Trump's moves on quantum computing, and there are a lot of good moves happening.
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