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Speaking about the critical minerals deal with the US, Albanese told the breakfast event that it took the relationship between the two countries to “another level.”

In what those in the room took as a clear reference to China, Albanese said the supply of critical minerals would make an “enormous difference so that we reduce our vulnerability from people who would seek to manipulate markets in order to secure any potential advantage that they think they might achieve.”

It’s moving in ways not just in international geopolitics but just with the transformation that we’ve seen with artificial intelligence, with technology and the impact it will have on the nature of work.

Source: Guardian - World News