Aerospace-sector manufacturing base is being aggressively reoriented away from China — reflecting a new 'metageography of development' where national actors secure critical aerospace supply chains (tungsten, copper, rare earths) via political borders a...

Aerospace-sector manufacturing base is being aggressively reoriented away from China — reflecting a new 'metageography of development' where national actors secure critical aerospace supply chains (tungsten, copper, rare earths) via political borders and strategic flows; refuting earlier globalization-era predictions that the national state would decline. | Next major US critical-minerals onshoring subsidy

Key catalyst: Next major US critical-minerals onshoring subsidy

Watch events: Defense Production Act aerospace-minerals invocations

US CHIPS Act, Defense Production Act invocations for critical minerals 2023-2026 validate decoupling thesis; EU Critical Raw Materials Act parallel.

Beneficiaries (6)

Adverse (4)

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