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'If Trump sees Ukraine’s rare earths as leverage, Australia must ensure that its strategic assets are recognised as even more valuable. The risk lies in failing to assert this before any transactional demands are made,' write Raelene Lockhorst and @johncoyne14.bsky.social.
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To avoid a Ukraine-style quid pro quo, Australia needs to work with the US on critical minerals | The Strategist
With Donald Trump back in the White House, Washington is operating under a hard-nosed, transactional framework in which immediate returns rather than shared values measure alliances. For Australia, th...
