President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Canada may end up undercutting his quest for mineral dominance.
The two superpowers are on strained footing following the president’s threats of tariffs on Canada, jokes about the northern neighbor becoming the 51st state and signals that he may block a Detroit-to-Windsor bridge. At the same time, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is brokering a trade alliance that excludes the U.S.
A lesser-known rift revolves around Trump’s effort to get countries to join the “Forum on Resource Geostrategic Engagement,” or FORGE, a rebranded version of the Biden-era Mineral Security Partnership.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced FORGE last month and said the group, chaired by South Korea through June, would succeed the MPS and members would “collaborate at the policy and project levels to advance initiatives that strengthen diversified, resilient, and secure critical minerals supply chains.”
