Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

It was explained in this analysis about "How A Rapprochement With Russia Helps The US Advance Its Goals Vis-à-vis China" that joint strategic resource investments after the end of the Ukrainian Conflict, particularly in energy and critical minerals, can assist the US in economically competing with China.

This vision aligns with the new National Security Strategy's (NSS) focus on securing critical resource supply chains and can prospectively be expanded to aid the US' allies with this for further advancing its goals.

After all, the bulk of the NSS' Asian section isn't about the US' military competition with China (though a subsection details efforts to deter it in Taiwan and the South China Sea), but their economic competition and the ways in which the US' allies can help the West keep pace with the People's Republic. It even proposes joint cooperation "with regard to critical minerals in Africa" for gradually reducing and ultimately eliminating their collective dependence on China's associated supply chains.