{"id":10729,"date":"2026-06-11T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:58:09","slug":"critical-minerals-strategy-is-going-down-a-cynical-road-by-alexander-ezquerra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/2026\/critical-minerals-strategy-is-going-down-a-cynical-road-by-alexander-ezquerra\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCritical minerals\u201d strategy is going down a cynical road by: Alexander Ezquerra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2026\/06\/2026.03.20-Critical-Minerals-1600x700.jpeg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        \u201cCritical minerals\u201d strategy is going down a cynical road by: Alexander Ezquerra\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As the U.S. and China compete for control of strategic minerals and technology, Canada should prioritize climate action over geopolitics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Read the full artical here: <\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyalternatives.ca\/news-research\/critical-minerals-strategy-is-going-down-a-cynical-road\/\">&#8220;Critical minerals&#8221; strategy is going down a cynical road | CCPA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the U.S. and China compete for control of strategic minerals and technology, Canada should prioritize climate action over geopolitics. Read the full artical here: &#8220;Critical minerals&#8221; strategy is going down a cynical road | CCPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-student-research"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10732,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/10732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}