Tibet’s Role in China’s Green Energy Supply Chain

The Diplomat Institutional·2026-07-10China EconomyP1: Resource Sovereignty P5: Strategic Decoupling P3: Industrial Base

Why it matters

China is deepening control over critical-mineral supply chains (chromite, quartz, copper) essential to global renewable-energy and semiconductor production. Australia faces structural disadvantage in strategic decoupling and resource sovereignty as China locks in upstream capacity for technologies central to both its own energy transition and technological dominance.

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Where this sits in the model

This development bears on 3 of the eight pillars of Australian preparedness — the overall picture right now is 5/100.

P1: Resource Sovereignty0/100 P5: Strategic Decoupling0/100 P3: Industrial Base3/100

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