Global Regimes & Realignments (🌍🧭)G7 Moves the Critical-Minerals Chokepoint Into an Allied Supply-Chain Bloc
France is pushing G7 partners at the June 15-17 Évian summit to back a critical-minerals statement aimed at reducing Western reliance on China, Reuters reported via Internazionale. Japan separately proposed a G7 stockpiling framework, while the French G7 presidency had already named critical-minerals value-chain resilience as a cross-cutting priority. The s…