This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

To Australia, to Gregory Copley commenting on Australia, he's from Perth, Western Australia,

commenting on the whole of the continent, however, because the continent's

representative, Prime Minister Abinazi, was in the Oval Office these last days, shaking hands

and smiling with President Trump. The headlines say to us that Australia came out well because

there's a deal in place about rare earths in Australia. I remind everybody,

rare earths are not rare. They're everywhere. But for reasons that cannot be explained easily

and aren't necessary, the Western nations have allowed all rare earth manufacturing to drift to China,

which is now talking about what are called controls,

export controls. Therefore, there's general concern, oh, my, we have to do something. President

Trump just did it with Albanese, but there's more to say, because Anthony Albanesey has an unusual

background in being perceived as favorable to dealing with the People's Republic of China.

Perceived, not a fact.

Gregory, a very good evening to you.

The rarest deal was the headline.

What was behind the rarest deal?

What other conversations can we guess

at between the two leaders? Good evening, too. Good evening, John. Well, the interesting thing is

the timing of this Australian official visit to the United States. It was put off and put off

and delayed by President Trump's resistance of Australian diplomacy to bring this about.

Eventually they fixed on this date, when they fixed on it relatively recently,

after it was known that the Communist Party of China was holding its fourth plenary session of the 20th Party Congress at this

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