Japan to explore rare-earth mining in Greenland to cut China reliance

Japan's move to diversify rare-earth sourcing away from China strengthens the broader allied decoupling strategy that Australia depends on for critical-mineral security and reduced vulnerability to Chinese economic coercion. This signals accelerating allied efforts to build resilient, non-China supply chains for defence-critical materials—a capability pillar Australia must match to maintain industrial-base sovereignty and alliance credibility.