Australia and the United States should expand their critical minerals deal to include other Western democracies, including the G7, one of Washington DC’s leading China experts has said.

The call comes ahead of Thursday and Friday’s G7 talks in Canada, which Australia’s Resources Minister Madeleine King will attend in Toronto and is expected to unveil a more global approach to creating a supply chain to rival China’s.

The G7 comprises the US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the UK and the EU.

Every country in the G7 is dependent on China for the vital metals that are used to produce high-end technological items, although Japan has been steadily reducing its dependence after the CCP economically coerced it in 2010 by blocking rare earths exports.

“They’re meeting to nut out how we

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