Opinion: How Australia is loosening China’s grip on the world’s crucial minerals

With minimal fanfare, Australia is preparing to assume a greater leadership role in the Indo-Pacific region. Its plans are laid out in various national strategies and policies, including most recently its critical minerals strategy.

The document, which covers the rest of the decade, reveals Australia’s intention to capitalize on its wealth of critical minerals, undermine China in the competition to secure said minerals and grow its influence in regional alliances. It is the economic strategy that will help fund Australia’s…