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U.S. efforts to secure strategic mineral supply chains may squeeze China out of the Australian market with the Antipodean nation being used as a raw materials supplier like the days of the British empire, writes Tony Kevin.
Heavy-metals pollution threatens indigenous agriculture throughout the region, reports Edgardo Ayala.