We've been working on this since the Biden administration as part of the Lobito Corridor [0] between Angola, DRC, and Zambia [1]. People really overestimate ho

We've been working on this since the Biden administration as part of the Lobito Corridor [0] between Angola, DRC, and Zambia [1]. People really overestimate how much of an impact Trump has had on our grand strategy - it's the same people who worked under Obama, Biden, and Trump. We shifted to a more muscular resources policy during the 2010s due to the US-China rivalry. We're not that different from the French in that regard [2]. [0] - https://www.csis.org/analysis/biden-goes-angola-beyond-lobito-corridor https://www.csis.org/analysis/biden-goes-angola-beyond-lobit... [1] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/what-to-know-about-the-lobito-corridor-and-how-it-may-change-how-minerals-move/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/what-to-k... [2] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/how-a-crisis-over-a-stockpile-of-uranium-created-an-opening-for-us-reengagement-in-niger/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/how-a-crisis-over...