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‘Irrational’: China fury over critical minerals divestment order - The Australian
Why it matters
A critical minerals divestment order signals Australian progress toward resource sovereignty and economic decoupling from China, directly supporting Pillar 1 (Resource Sovereignty) and Pillar 5 (Decoupling). This represents a concrete policy move to control sovereign extraction and processing of strategic minerals essential for defence, energy, and advanced manufacturing—reducing vulnerability to Chinese economic coercion.
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