# Ep. 350: Tomasz Nadrowski on China's Mineral War, Western Supply Chain Gaps, and Global Resilience Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-hive-conversations-with-bilal-hafeez-524900/ep-350-tomasz-nadrowski-on-china-s-mineral-war-western-supply-chain-gaps-and-global-resilience Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-hive-conversations-with-bilal-hafeez-524900/ep-350-tomasz-nadrowski-on-china-s-mineral-war-western-supply-chain-gaps-and-global-resilience.md Podcast: [Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez](https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-hive-conversations-with-bilal-hafeez-524900) Published: 2026-03-20T10:13:00+00:00 Episode link: https://macrohive.libsyn.com/ep-350-tomasz-nadrowski-on-chinas-mineral-war-western-supply-chain-gaps-and-global-resilience Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/macrohive/MH_w_NADROWSKInew2.mp3?dest-id=1929056 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/macro-hive-conversations-with-bilal-hafeez-524900/episodes/ep-350-tomasz-nadrowski-on-china-s-mineral-war-western-supply-chain-gaps-and-global-resilience Duration seconds: 2944 ## Resource Tomasz Nadrowski is a portfolio manager at the Amvest Terraden Critical Minerals Fund. He was a former Director at the World Economic Forum and Vice President of Business Development at AngloGold Ashanti, then the world's largest gold producer . Tomasz has spent over fifteen years managing commodity and mining equity portfolios for hedge funds and family offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He is f luent in seven languages and a regular contributor to Oxford Analytica . H e combines deep industry knowledge with a strategic understanding of how resources, markets, and power intersect in today's shifting geopolitical landscape. He is also the host of the podcast Tyranny Today. In this podcast, we discuss: Geopolitics vs. the Commodity Cycle China's VAT Rebate and Value-Added Strategy Critical Choke Points: Rare Earths, Graphite, and Gallium Regulatory Roadblocks and the Stigma of "Dirty" Mining The Abdication of Western Capital Markets Human Capital Gaps and the "Octogenarian Engineer" Problem Geoeconomic Pricing: Disincentivi s ing New Capacity From "Just-in-Time" to "Just-in-Case" Production Japan's "House of Brick" Model for Resilience The Mineral War and the "Soul" of AI A Shift Toward Oligopolistic Competition ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/macro-hive-conversations-with-bilal-hafeez-524900/episodes/ep-350-tomasz-nadrowski-on-china-s-mineral-war-western-supply-chain-gaps-and-global-resilience/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-hive-conversations-with-bilal-hafeez-524900/ep-350-tomasz-nadrowski-on-china-s-mineral-war-western-supply-chain-gaps-and-global-resilience.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.