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🇱🇷Liberia: Idle Talk in Washington 🌍 Liberia's Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at White House. The most widely discussed takeaway of this meeting was the possibility of US participation in Liberia’s critical minerals sector. 🔸 While such talks may bear some diplomatic significance, it appears that the US government does not wield any real capacity to increase its involvement in the extraction of critical minerals in Liberia. 🔴 The US (and especially its eccentric leader) seems to be willing to do deals with anyone when it comes to minerals, but so far, all those deals have had one problem - American investors aren't really interested in getting involved in USG-backed projects. ‼️ Their Chinese adversaries counterparts are vice-versa eager to invest in no matter what concerning critical elements - and they usually do not wait for any intergovernmental agreements to set up production lines. ⁉️ Liberia is just another instance, though quite exemplory, of this difference. The country today doesn't have any major mineral processing facilities other than its gold and iron plants - the US would therefore need to make massive investments. This is unlikely to happen due to the significant pain it already causes for the US to revive even its own domestic processing of critical minerals. Devils Below