Missing market

Nishtia and Jenna are going to offer their expertise and insights to answer the question: Can the United States and allies loosen China's chokehold over rare earth elements? Dr.

McDonagh is MBA director and senior lecturer in geopolitics and international business at the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, and he is the author of today's brand-new USSC report, The Missing Market: Why US and Allies' Rare Earth De-risking Needs a Demand-Side Strategy.

And I'm so pleased to say that report is on our website right now, and we'll all be sending you a, a link to that report after this event.

Um, Nishtia McDonagh is joined by Jenna Lehmann.

Jenna is a Sir Roland Wilson Pat Turner scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Thanks, Hayley.

Delighted to be here.

Now, we are going to talk about Nishtia's report, um, and we'll also talk more broadly, not just about rare earth elements, but just critical mineral supply chains generally.

I just want people to know.

I call the missing market and how the market never actually evolved into a fully functioning market.

If it were a fully functioning market, there would be an actual buyer.

But who's actually buying the services? The people in charge of the plan are buying the services if their balances are the largest.