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Trump’s gut tells him he’s got China on the ropes. He couldn’t be more wrong

Donald Trump believes his tariff folly will isolate its superpower adversary. But it will be the US, not China, that could find itself outside the tent.

  • Peter Hartcher

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The heavy rare earth metals covered by the export suspension are used in magnets essential for many kinds of electric motors, including EVs.

China halts critical mineral, magnet exports as trade war intensifies

The move threatens to choke off supplies of components central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.

  • Keith Bradsher
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has dumped his pledge to curtail Commonwealth public servants working from home.

Mining sector urges Dutton not to class gas a ‘critical mineral’

Classing gas as a “critical mineral” would qualify gas drillers for support from a $4 billion loans facility.

  • Nick Toscano and Simon Johanson
Vladimir Putin made it a crime punishable by up to 15 years’ jail for Russians to criticise his invasion of Ukraine.

Trump’s peace talks are just a charade. Russia wants to obliterate Ukraine

The notion that a peace deal can be brokered with Vladimir Putin is a dangerous delusion, as the US is about to find out.

  • Rob Harris
A woman arranges campaign posters in Nuuk, Greenland.

The ‘orange guy’ wants Greenland – but what do Greenlanders want?

Voters brushed snow from their coats before finding a seat in the packed community hall. Then, with the world’s media watching, a man in a black and grey jumper stepped forward to the mic.

  • Christian Ulloriaq Jeppesen, Maya Tekeli and Jeffrey Gettleman
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump wants to extort $785b from Ukraine. But questions remain over Zelensky’s ‘treasure trove’

Donald Trump wants Ukraine to hand over $US500 billion of future income from its plentiful resources reserves – but what if those resources aren’t economically viable, and just a ploy from a “moderately successful comedian”?

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Economic colony: Trump’s secret plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold

Donald Trump’s demand for an $800 billion “payback” from Ukraine goes far beyond US control over the country’s critical minerals.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

‘This is not a joke’: Could the US buy Greenland?

Trump is again floating the idea of acquiring Greenland. Could he? And what do Greenlanders think?

  • Angus Holland
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with US Treasury Secretary (unseen) in Kyiv to discuss a rare-minerals-for-security deal.

‘Security shield’: US hands Zelensky draft deal on rare minerals

The idea of a minerals-for-security deal is said to have come from Ukraine to appeal to Donald Trump’s business-first mindset.

  • Tom Balmforth, Max Hunder and Yuliia Dysa
A rare earths plant in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, run by the Australian company Lynas.

Australia close to breaking China’s critical mineral stranglehold

Australian firms are within a few years of refining most of the rare minerals used in the world’s critical defence systems, electric vehicles and clean energy transition.

  • Simon Johanson

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