Trump team looks to Australia for rare earths to avoid Chinese ‘extortion’
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Monday, October 20, 2025
Australia could be a major source of the rare earths being withheld by China, a top White House official said Monday ahead of a visit from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, said Australia has one of the “best mining economies on Earth,” the smartest refiners and “lots and lots of rare earths.”
He said the issue will come up during Mr. Albanese’s meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday.
“Australia is really, really going to be helpful in the effort to take the global economy and make it less risky, less exposed to the kind of rare earth extortion that we’re seeing from the Chinese,” Mr. Hassett told White House reporters.
Beijing recently clamped down on China’s export of rare earth elements that are used in smartphones, electric vehicles, lasers and military technology.
China has a stranglehold on the production of the rare minerals and metals, whose atomic structures give them unusual powers.
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