How Critical Minerals Explain Trump’s Policy
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 1:06.2 | This is FP Live. What drives the Trump administration's foreign policy? |
| 1:14.5 | It is a question we've asked many times on this program, and the answer is often America |
| 1:19.8 | first, which is declarative, but also vague. |
| 1:24.0 | Instead of conceptual ideas or academic theories, however, one of the organizing principles of |
| 1:30.7 | Trump's foreign policy could actually be physical and simple, access to critical minerals. |
| 1:38.3 | In this school of thought, Trump's interest in taking over Canada and Greenland or his desire |
| 1:44.1 | for deals with Ukraine or Pakistan |
| 1:46.2 | is all about acquiring minerals that are the building blocks of modern technology. |
| 1:52.1 | And that might explain policy choices that otherwise don't add up. |
| 1:56.9 | In a moment, we will speak with a top expert on critical minerals to understand what they are, |
| 2:02.4 | why they matter, and how they are influencing foreign policy. |
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