Mineral War: China’s Quest for Weapons of Mineral Destruction

Is the real battlefield beneath our feet? This is not a book written from the sidelines. Mineral War comes from inside the system, by an author who has spent decades working across global mining, finance, and geopolitical risk, from East Asia to Western capital markets. What emerges is a stark, unsettling picture of how modern power actually works. While public attention fixates on trade wars, chips, and military flashpoints, this book exposes the deeper contest underneath, control of the critical minerals that underpin advanced technology, clean energy, and modern warfare. These supply chains are no longer economic conveniences. They are strategic choke points. With the clarity of someone fluent in both market logic and state power, the author explains how China deliberately built dominance across mineral value chains, why Western markets misread the threat, and how economic rules collapse when one side treats trade as a weapon. This is not theory or hindsight. It is a firsthand account of how resource control became a tool of 21st-century conflict. Urgent, incisive, and deeply informed, Mineral War changes how geopolitics is understood. Once seen, this hidden battlefield cannot be unseen, and neither can the consequences of losing it. The minerals are real. The conflict is already here.