Tag: SupplyChains
Taiwan Probe Targets Chinese Parts in Army Drones
Taiwan's Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office has detained the head of a drone contractor accused of supplying the Army with training drones containing Chinese-made flight-control boards and packaged semiconductor chips, in what prosecutors say is one of Taiwan's first military drone procurement cases brought under the National Security Act. A court…
Trump Puts New Tariffs on Drone Imports
President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing tariffs of up to 100 percent on imported drones and their components, a move the White House frames as reducing US reliance on foreign, largely Chinese-made unmanned aircraft. The order landed one day after Washington's costliest known drone losses of the Iran…
The New Resource Wars Have Already Begun
For much of the twentieth century, control over oil shaped alliances, wars and global trade. The twenty-first century is increasingly being defined by a different set of strategic resources. Cobalt, lithium, graphite and rare earth elements have become indispensable for manufacturing electric vehicles, semiconductors, drones, precision-guided missiles and advanced military…
Civil Wars Are Becoming Battles for Critical Minerals
The world's race to secure critical minerals is changing the geography of civil wars. Deposits of rare earths, coltan, gold and uranium are no longer merely sources of wartime revenue; they are becoming strategic assets whose control affects military supply chains, industrial policy and competition between major powers. As governments…
