China limits its tech metal supply to India

2. According to Avinash Chander, DRDO Chief and Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister of India, China is restricting the supply of technology metals and certain other metals, as part of its plan to limit India’s military capability. These metals are of vital importance in the development of several defence equipments and weapons. China adopted the same strategy, restricting the supply of technology metals to Japan in 2010 after a political dispute. In addition to technology metals, China has also blocked the supply of basic metals like Tungsten. Tech metals are fundamental components of sensors, actuators, communications and navigation systems and so forth used in defence equipment. China holds a commanding monopoly over world technology metal supplies, controlling about 95 percent of mined production and refining. India doesn’t have a sufficient stock or supply of some of these finished metals required for the manufacture of their defense equipment. The technology which India had developed to produce Tungsten was set aside due to economic reasons. The country is looking for alternative solutions to deal with China’s strategies but currently it doesn’t have the capability or quality ores. According to Mr. Chander, India needs to stockpile defense metals for emergency situations. He added that India needs to invest in infrastructure creation if India is to be successful in the manufacture of high end

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