{"id":74850,"date":"2025-10-21T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/australia-us-critical-minerals-rare-earths-deal-china-explainer"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:47:58","slug":"australia-and-the-us-have-signed-a-critical-minerals-deal-to-take-on-chinas-monopoly-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74850","title":{"rendered":"Australia and the US have signed a critical minerals deal to take on China\u2019s monopoly. Here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move is intended to support the supply of minerals to benefit both countries\u2019 commercial and defence industries \u2013 and shareholders are already profiting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia and the US have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/oct\/20\/albanese-at-the-white-house-trump-endorses-aukus-signs-85bn-rare-earths-deal-and-calls-pm-great-leader\">signed a critical minerals deal<\/a> designed to break China\u2019s near complete hold over materials essential to commercial, clean energy and advanced military hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump have committed to each provide at least US$1bn ($1.54bn) towards a $US8.5bn ($13bn) pipeline of projects in both countries over the next six months to feed their commercial and defence industries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/21\/australia-us-critical-minerals-rare-earths-deal-china-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move is intended to support the supply of minerals to benefit both countries\u2019 commercial and defence industries \u2013 and shareholders are already profitingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia and the US have signed a cr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[961,41,43,645,1585,6,50,3426,415,730,2454,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-business","category-china","category-critical-minerals","category-donald-trump","category-mining","category-us-defence-spending","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74851,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74850\/revisions\/74851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}