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at CDM, 238
in DRC, 213–14
in Kafwaya, 289
in Kolwezi, 19
Musk on, 3
in Pamoja, 215–18
in Tilwezembe, 157–58
China, 2
African relations with, 234–35, 258, 375
Angola’s relations with, 298–99
Aronson and, 94–95, 97
battery industry in, 9, 78, 192, 276–77
Belgian colonialism and, 369–70
CATL in, 261
Chinese laborers in Indonesia, 252–53
Chinese traders in DRC, 229–31, 234–35
cobalt refinement in, 319
Congo crisis and, 50–53
development policy, 52
e-bikes in, 192–93
economy of, 94–95
electric vehicles in, 195–98
espionage, 96
foreign policy of, 53
Indonesia and, 247–48, 327–28
industry mentality in, 109
investment in Indonesia, 183–84, 249
Katumba Mwanke in, 208
Mobutu and, 54, 56
nationalism in, 279
one-child policy, 234
ownership of mines in DRC, 281–82
Sanderson on, 209
SEZs in, 105
slave labor in, 257–58
soft power of, 247
Sony and, 108
United States and, 209
United States entrepreneurs doing business in, 95–96
WTO and, 97
China Development Bank, 134, 249
China Molybdenum, 269, 276, 278
TFM and, 281–82, 373–74
China Railway Group Ltd. (CREC), 200, 201–2
Chinese Communist Party, 104, 113
Chokwe people, 167
Chongqing, 197
Chorzempa, Martin, 196, 197, 256
The Christian Science Monitor, 131–32
Chrysler, 149
Chubaka, Anatole Bishikwabo, 130
CIA, 67–68
Cime Jinga, Charlotte “Maman Ocean,” 241
on creuseurs, 377–78
Cimetière Mwangeji, 332, 378
mass grave at, 377
Clair, Benjamin, 335
Clean Air Act, 60
climate change
goals for combatting, 376
mining industry and, 376
cloves, 32
CMOC Group Limited, 282
coal, 250
cobalt, 1, 20, 40, 69–70
Apple’s use of, 6
in Central African Copperbelt, 24
Chinese refinement of, 319
in Congo, 98–99
etymology of, 23
Gertler, D., on, 136–37
Idaho in, 358
Indonesian production of, 322–23
market demand for, 70–71, 72
Meng on, 316
military demand for, 70
in NMC batteries, 180–81
price fluctuations, 92
Soviet Union using, 70–71
super-caps, 25
theft of, 87
United States using, 72
wars and prices of, 137
Cobalt Highway, 289–90, 299
Cobalt Institute, 298, 322–23
cobaltists, 87, 154, 156
cobalt sulfate, 62
Cocconi, Alan, 148
Coen, Jan Pieterszoon, 73
Coeur d’Alene, 356, 361
Cohen, Yossi, 132
Cold War, 11, 35, 46, 57, 176, 258, 291
colonialism, 295
Belgian, 20–21, 32, 33, 40–41, 42, 47
French, H. W., on, 375
in Indonesia, 185–86
rhetoric of, 375
COMAKAT, 175
Commodities Global Summit, 197
Communism, 51
Compact Power Inc. (CPI), 178–80
Compagnie Antoine, 232
Compagnie du Katanga, 368, 369
Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga (Conakat), 42–44
Congo, 47–48. See also Belgian colonialism; Democratic Republic of the Congo
China and crisis in, 50–53
cobalt in, 98–99
copper in, 98–99
economy of, 98, 115
inflation in, 115
Congo Construction Company (CCC), 207, 269–70
Congo Dongfang International Mining (CDM), 202, 204, 226, 237–38
child labor at, 239
creuseurs at, 239–40
work conditions at, 239, 242
Congo Free State, 32
Congo Hold-Up, 22
Congolese Battery Council, 352
Congolese National Movement (MNC), 43
Congress for Appalachian Development, 59
Conrad, Joseph, 21
Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), 111, 193, 249
in China, 261
Kisanfu and, 284
Madanda on, 353
R&D at, 313
Convention of Collaboration, 200–201
Cook, Tim, 12, 314
Coopérative Minière pour le Bien-Être des Exploitants Artisanaux du Katanga, 243
Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs, 249
copper, 23, 40, 255
Chinese demand for, 136–37
in Congo, 98–99
Cornet, Jules, xii, 30–31
corruption, 275–78
Council on Foreign Relations, 196
Covert, Bryce, 145
COVID-19 pandemic, 284, 347
inflation following, 296
The Creative Wisdom of Wang Chuanfu (Li Daqian), 107, 112
CREC. See China Railway Group Ltd.
creuseurs, 153, 239
accidents affecting, 334
at CDM, 239–40
Cime Jinga on, 377–78
cooperatives, 160
at Kasulo, 224–26
at Kolwezi, 158, 221–24, 231–32
mass graves of, 377–78
Nawiji on, 219
poverty of, 219
at Shinkolobwe, 152
strikes of, 239
critical metals, 2
Menell on, 376
supply-demand dislocation, 370
Critical Minerals International, 361–62
Cybertruck, 12
D
Dakhla, 310
Dalhem, 365–66
Dalio, Ray, 190
Dalwigk, Ilka von, 335
Dan Gertler International, 170
dark money, 119–20
Datastake, 335
De Beers, 123, 128
decolonization, 41, 47, 49–50, 67, 124
Decolonization Committee, UN, 305
De-Leon, Shmuel, 371
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 3–4
author banned from, 8
author visits to, 19
battery industry in, 352
Chen Xuehua in, 205
child labor in, 213–14
Chinese ownership of mines in, 281–82
Chinese traders in, 229–31, 234–36
diamonds in, 130
ecology of, 154
economy of, 40
education in, 39
geological history of, 24–25
human rights abuses in, 5–6
Israel and, 130–31
Kalala in, 234–35
labor conditions in, 5–7
lithium mining in, 5
middle class formation in, 218
mining code in, 136–37
names in, 17n
public-private partnerships in, 87
racism in, 229, 230
Rwanda and, 134–35
silent genocide in, 5
unemployment in, 40–41
U.S. investment in, 300–301
violent seizure of resources in, 168–69
Zhou, P., on, 228, 254–55
dendrites, 65
Deng Xiaoping, 193, 319
on wealth, 94–96
Department of Defense, U.S., 9, 296
Department of the Treasury, U.S., 275–76
Department of Transportation, U.S., 91
Devlin, Larry, 46, 52, 263
diamonds, 122–23
in DRC, 130
Dikulushi massacre, 254
discipline, 38–39
Dodge Viper, 149
Donkin, Clint, on KCC, 272–74
DRC. See Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dunn, Kevin C., 375
Dusausoy, Jean, 68, 69
Dutch East Indies Company, 73
Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service, 277
Du Wei (David), 207
Dynamique de la Jeunesse Ruund, 243
E
Earth Day, 59
Eastern Bloc, 70, 71
Eberhard, Martin, 148
e-bikes, in China, 192–93
Edison, Thomas, 65, 182
education, 159, 214–15, 255–56
in DRC, 39
E-Flex system, 150
Ehrlichman, John, 59–60
Eiffel Tower, 296
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 46
Electric Fuel Propulsion Inc., 61–62
electric vehicles, 1, 256
Aronson designing, 61–62
Biden, J., and, 318
in China, 195–98
early development of, 60
GM, 150
in Indonesia, 323
lithium-ion batteries in, 76–77
in Morocco, 311–12
open-source designs, 350
plug-in electric hybrid cars, 350
pollution from, 13–14
sodium-ion-powered, 371
supply chain, 311
in United States, 12, 191–92, 318
electrochromic windows, 37
Elisabethville, 40, 54
Enfield 8000, 61
Entreprise Générale Malta Forrest, 87
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 60, 360–61
Hopper on, 357
Nixon founding, 356
Williams and, 357–58
