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VIDEO: Aussie lithium miners square up to China's battery might - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
GNews: ABC News Major outlet·2026-08-05TradeP1: Resource SovereigntyP3: Industrial BaseP5: Strategic Decoupling
Why it matters
Lithium is Australia's second-largest export resource and critical to global battery supply chains. If Australian miners and manufacturers can capture downstream battery-production capacity, Australia transitions from raw-resource exporter to strategic materials processor, reducing Chinese control over a critical-technology supply chain and strengthening pillar 1 (Resource Sovereignty) and pillar 5 (Decoupling).
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