12/04/2026
Soon We 🙏🙏🙏 Rody Duterte Inday Sara Duterte
t’s crazy to look at how different the economic strategies are right next door to each other in Southeast Asia.
Take the EV battery boom. The Philippines is the second-largest miner of nickel on the planet. But instead of refining it themselves, they ship roughly 90% of that raw, unrefined dirt straight to China.
Meanwhile, Indonesia (the number one miner) completely banned raw exports a few years ago. They basically said if you want our nickel, you have to build your billion-dollar refineries on our soil.
One country is basically just handing over the raw materials for China's battery empire, and the other is forcing the world to invest locally to get it.
