Doug Burgum: “China, strategically, over several decades, you know, now…”

“But there certainly is things we have to do to de risk. And by de risking, I'd say the first thing you'd focus on is critical minerals. Because, you know, China, strategically, over several decades, you know, now controls 85 to 100% of the processing of the minerals that we need. for everybody in this room. I mean, if you, if you've got a cell phone in your pocket, if you drove in a car today, if you flew in an airplane to get here, if you care about the defense, how do we do that?” (18:19–18:29)

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