Ukraine, China, and the Emerging Geopolitics of Resource Security

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

A bonus episode this week. On May 22, I moderated a panel organized by Vita Golod and the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. The focus was on the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral Security Partnership, and it features Ivan Us, Chief Consultant at the Center for Foreign Policy at the National Institute for Strategic Studies; Jim Mullinax, a Senior Foreign Service Officer and former Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu (closed in 2020); Grzegorz Stec, Senior Analyst and Head of the Brussels Office at MERICS; and Xu Qinduo, journalist at CGTN and Senior Fellow at the Pangoal Institution. The panel explores the background and the implications of the minerals deal, signed on May 1, 2025, for the ongoing war in Ukraine, and prospects for post-war reconstruction. I hope you enjoy what I thought was a fascinating conversation.

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1:02.3	This is a panel discussion that was organized by my friend Vida Holod and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina
1:11.8	Chapel Hill. It features four excellent panelists who I will introduce to you in this program.
1:18.4	We are looking at the background and the implications of the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral Security Partnership
1:24.2	that was signed in Washington on May 1st of this year.
1:28.5	Its implications for the war in Ukraine, for prospects for post-war reconstruction, and also
1:34.3	for the role that minerals, especially strategic minerals, are going to play in geopolitics
1:40.7	going forward, if it isn't already obvious that they're playing a major role. I hope you
1:45.5	enjoy. Hi, everyone. My name is Vita Golod, and I am co-founder of the Ukrainian platform for
1:53.2	contemporary China. And currently visiting adjunct instructor at UNC University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Just a quick reminder,
2:04.7	we launched this platform in 2022, just a few months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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