Morgan Bazilian, director, Payne Institute for Public Policy, and Alex Gilbert, fellow with Payne, co-authored this analysis. They write that "the rules-based global order is under siege at sea."

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, provides context about the challenges of a establishing a mining sector.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Mines Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this article outlining the challenges associated with a minerals deal being negotiated with Ukraine. The agreement would obligate Ukraine to pay 50 percent of the proceeds from the “future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets” to a fund that the two countries would co-own.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Mines, is quoted. This “is one of the only areas of sort of rough bipartisan agreement—that is that these minerals and metals are crucial for energy, but also national security and consumer goods and the overall economy,” said Bazilian. “They feature heavily in the economic war between China and the United States.”

At the university level, the United States’ 14 mining schools have collectively graduated roughly 185 to 200 mining engineers per year, into an annual demand of 400 to 500, over the last few years, said Stephen Enders, head of the mining engineering ....

This appears to be part of the wider ongoing trade war between the US and China,” wrote Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of the Mines, in an email to Foreign Policy, while noting that the Biden ....

"We see some positive signs of diplomacy, but they don’t appear to be influencing this sort of downward, tit-for-tat spiral," said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.

“The entire political system is very taken with the fact that China dominates the overall space, and it’s become one of the only areas of roughly bipartisan agreement,” said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School ....

“It’s not at all clear how you go about changing dramatically a global supply chain in practice,” said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines and a former lead energy specialist at the World Bank.

“China is the dominant player across the supply chain for almost all of these critical minerals,” said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines and a former lead energy specialist at the World Bank.