The Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip
One Dutch company prints the machines; one Taiwanese company prints the chips; China refines the graphite inside the batteries. Three single points of failure.
Read →Morocco holds the phosphorus, Russia and Belarus the potash — and a severed pipeline in Ukraine redrew the nitrogen map. The global food system rests on two axes of concentrated power.
Read the full storyOne Dutch company prints the machines; one Taiwanese company prints the chips; China refines the graphite inside the batteries. Three single points of failure.
Read →Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run. Resource security was never about the hole in the ground.
Read →Twenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and the insurance math nobody in the West wants to do out loud.
Read →mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. Nobody is demolishing the dollar. They are making it unnecessary.
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