Research by Benjamin Yang

How do governments use industrial policy, trade and legal controls, public finance and investment to reshape strategic-material supply chains, and what does the available evidence establish about implementation?

Strategic Materials Policy Tracker organizes the instruments and the evidence needed to investigate that question. It connects a measure to its official rationale, a financing record to its organizations and project, and reported industrial activity to the source that states it.

Built and maintained by Benjamin Yang, Strategic Materials Policy Tracker combines international affairs research, economic-security analysis and close examination of primary-source evidence. Its approach is comparative rather than country-centered, examining how governments deploy policy instruments, public financing and industrial interventions across major economies and strategic-material supply chains.

The project is intended for journalists, policymakers, analysts and researchers who need structured, citable records, transparent evidence and a clearer understanding of the relationship between government action and reported industrial outcomes.

Inspect the reasoning at the level of a record: the original text, translation provenance, field-level references, status distinctions and specific unknowns. Government statements, issuer claims and SMPT interpretation retain their separate roles.

Coverage is selective and uneven. A source-reviewed observation is not independent on-site verification, and a shared material or date does not demonstrate causation. The methodology and coverage report explain these limits.