People's Republic of China
Controls ~90% REE processing, ~98% gallium/germanium, ~90% battery-graphite refining; the binding chokepoint.
CountryAI InfrastructureCritical MineralsDefenceSemiconductors
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Strategic profile
Industrial importance5/5
Initial score derived from current Atlas ecosystem coverage.
Strategic importance5/5
Initial score derived from relationship breadth and entity type.
Import dependency4/5
Foreign-origin entity in the current Atlas.
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Mapped relationships
- Owns / ControlsGallium
- Competes withScheme to Promote Manufacturing of Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets
- Owns / ControlsRare Earth Elements / Neodymium-Praseodymium
- Owns / ControlsGraphite (battery-anode grade)
- Owns / ControlsLithium
- Competes withNational Critical Mineral Mission
- Competes withNational Aluminium Company Limited
- Supplies toRare-earth permanent magnets (NdFeB)- China anchors ~90% of global sintered NdFeB magnet output; India imports ~78% of its permanent magnets from China (FY25-26 customs, $172.35M of $221.66M).
- Supplies toHigh-energy Li-ion cells- 83.6% of India's lithium-ion cell imports (HS 850760) came from China in FY25-26 ($3,927.72M of $4,697.08M); 91.2% including Hong Kong.
- Supplies toDrone flight controller- ~90% of small-drone flight controllers are Chinese-sourced (report estimate, single-source).