16: Colonel Newsham Discusses Promising US-Australia Rare Earth Deal and Canberra's Dual Strategy Toward China Grant Newsham with John Batchelor Colonel Grant Newsham discussed the promising US-Australia rare earth deal, noting Australia has vast mining capab
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:33.9 | I welcome my colleague Grant Nusham, |
| 0:37.2 | Colonel United States Marine Corps, former U.S. diplomat, |
| 0:47.3 | commenting most recently, for an Asian-oriented audience about the conversation in the Oval Office in these last hours between the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, and the President of the United States, Mr. Trump, the conversation |
| 0:56.8 | was cordial. It was generous. There were smiles all around in the treaty room in the White |
| 1:04.4 | House cabinet table. And there was also a deal made about rare earths, which are not rare. They're worldwide. But for |
| 1:14.0 | reasons that yet to be explained, the major powers that depend upon rare earths for their |
| 1:19.4 | electronic businesses, EVs and everything else that I'm watching in front of me right now, all |
| 1:25.3 | the iPads, all the iPhones, all of the transistors, |
| 1:28.8 | everything in front of me depends on rare earth. |
| 1:31.0 | For reasons to be explained, the last decades have allowed all rare earth manufacturing |
| 1:37.4 | to flow to the People's Republic of China, one mine in the Inner Mongolia, in fact, |
| 1:43.3 | which is a state-run enterprise guarded |
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