A review of research on the geopolitical risks and security of China's critical mineral supply
At present,geopolitics has become a significant force affecting the global resource mar-ket.China has a high dependence on importing strategic mineral resources.It is crucial to prevent the threatening impact of geopolitical risks on resource import security,and to deepen the imple-mentation of the national resource security strategy.This article reviewed relevant literature both in China and internationally from the perspective of resource geopolitics theory,systematically analyz-ing the development process,key issues,and current geopolitical risks faced by China's critical mineral resource supply security.Further literature analysis identified that there are three paths that geopolitical risks affect China's resource import.The first path is"risk-demand and supply imbal-ance-price uncertainty",where the geopolitical risks would make the resource price fluctuate by af-fecting the market demand-supply network;The second path is"risk-source crisis-supply uncertain-ty",which refers to the threat to the stability of resource supply posed by geopolitical risks through triggering import source crises;The third path is"risk-channel vulnerability-transportation uncer-tainty",which means that geopolitical risks exacerbate the vulnerability of import transportation channels and further cause disruption to resource transportation.A systematic review of main em-pirical studies found that relevant studies generally support the negative impact of geopolitical risks on China's resource import,but also suggest that this impact is nonlinear and there is an interactive relationship between the impact paths.This article also summarized the resource geo-security strat-egies in the literature.On this basis,future research directions are proposed,including improving the assessment of resource geopolitical risk,exploring the pattern of price changes under geopoliti-cal risk,strengthening the dynamic identification of geopolitical risk in resource transportation pro-cess.
strategic mineral resourcesgeopolitical risksupply securityimpact mechanismre-search review
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