The $13 Billion Mirage: How China’s Industrial Pledges Could Trigger Western Trade Sanctions

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Ethiopia’s March 27 Invest in Ethiopia forum produced a headline $13.1 billion in industrial pledges—dominated by a $10 billion commitment from Ming Yang Smart Energy—just as mounting evidence of environmental harm and labor abuses in mining regions raises the real prospect that U.S. trade measures on processed critical minerals and labor practice…