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CX Daily: How Resource Nationalism Is Redrawing the Global Mineral Playbook

Published: Jan. 6, 2026 9:00 a.m. GMT+8

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In early December, the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a strategic partnership with the United States, trading preferential American access to its copper, cobalt and lithium resources for U.S. security assurances.

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