Australia and Japan can help build the G7’s critical-minerals future

Australia's endorsement of the G7 Critical Minerals Resilience and Production Alliance directly advances decoupling from Chinese mineral-supply dominance and strengthens allied coordination to reduce non-G7 supplier dependence to ≤60% by 2030. This reinforces Australia's role as a strategic critical-mineral producer and integrates Australian resource sovereignty into a formal G7 security framework, reducing vulnerability to Chinese economic coercion via rare-earth and battery-metal supply control.