Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Sascha Hannig
“[E]lectrification has become a tool of strategic resilience, but electrification—both in appliances and in alternative and green energy supplies—depends on batteries, and batteries depend heavily on lithium; and who owns lithium? Few are asking this question, and, most importantly, how it affects liberal countries, the state of democracy in the Global South, and international supply chains. This is why the lithium market now sits at the center of geopolitical competition.” (07/02/26)