2023-07-07 16:47:33
“The Chinese Communist Party is exploiting the vast cobalt resources of the DRC to fuel its economy, on the backs of exploited workers and by using child labor”. It was without mincing words that the Republican Chris Smith introduced, at the end of June, in the American House of Representatives, a measure aimed at prohibiting the importation of Congolese cobalt and lithium resulting from child labor and other forms of ‘abuse.
ReadHow China and the United States are fighting over Africa
This sanction is part of the continuity of the campaign that Washington has been waging against Beijing in Kinshasa for several years. The DRC, which holds almost all of the world’s reserves of the precious cobalt, essential for the manufacture of electric batteries, is a strategic partner that the United States and China* are fighting over.
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