CHINA owns most of the global SUPPLY CHAINS for COPPER
Imagine AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE.
The top vertex represents the available markets, the consumers interested and capable of buying your goods & services.
The left bottom vertex is the labor force at the different levels of skill, professional training and education including the general management for a given industrial endeavor.
The right bottom vertex is the physical organization in term of infrastructures, industrial settlements & maintenance capacity.
You can express the REALITY AT THE CENTER OF THE TRIANGLE with two words : SUPPLY CHAINS or with one word : LOGISTICS.