Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pushing for a deal with US President Donald Trump on new technological frontiers as the US fights a tech and trade war with China.

Months after the Albanese government rejected a Chinese offer to incorporate artificial intelligence in the Australia-China free trade agreement, US ambassador Kevin Rudd has revealed Australia is racing towards making a pact with the US on advanced technologies.

Rudd talked up the looming deal in a speech in Canberra on Monday night, fresh from his work on the $13 billion critical minerals deal signed at the Trump-Albanese talks in Washington last week.

Chinese state media portrayed the agreement on critical minerals, ingredients crucial to modern defence and green energy sectors, as a demonstration of Canberra’s fealty

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