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Recently Ch!na blocked rare earth minerals and magnet exports to India. They also blocked speciality fertilizer and certain heavy duty tunnel boring machines used to create city metro or suway transport system. All these were taken by surprise by the Indian government and businesses as they never had any contingency plan as replacement. Lithium is a critical mineral which is used in modern day battery for electric vehicles to smartphone. Bajaj Auto, a leading two wheeler manufacturer in India was the first to raise the alarm that if they don’t get Lithium and rare earth materials from import, they may have to scale down production from August 2025. Due to the panic in the automobile industry, a delegation of business team took Ch!nese visa in order to meet and discuss the issue with government officials there. Their visa was never cleared by the Ch!nese officials and the meeting never took place. The lithium battery pack costs 40-50% of an electric vehicle and Ch!na hold 70-80% control...