The new frontier of global power is human DNA. Genomic biobanks have ignited a 'Data Gold Rush', turning personalized medicine into a strategic geopolitical asset. this article explores the economic potential of the biobanks market, the growing US-China Biotech rivalry and various ethical and privacy challenges. Dive into the analysis to know how your DNA has become the world's most contested asset
The development of a global green transition needs batteries, electric cars, and renewable energy materials. These then depend on minerals: cobalt, lithium, nickel, manganese, graphite, and rare earth elements. The continent holds a vast reserves of these resources, however it exports as ores and imports finished products. Such a development leaves no choice but starts a debt trap.
Microchips drive our digital age but control over them is dangerously concentrated. The global race for semiconductor supremacy risks deepening inequality between nations. This analysis explores how the chip bottleneck is shaping the 21st-century balance of power and what can be done to make the digital future fairer.
As the global demand for clean energy surges, control over rare earth and critical minerals has become a new front in the U.S.-China rivalry and Africa is emerging as the decisive player. Explore how this mineral race is reshaping global economic power and resource sovereignty.
