Abstract
This paper seeks to analyse the crucial mineral agreement signed by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese within the context of the broader process of capitalist transformation and geopolitical rivalry. We seek to go beyond state-centric arguments about geoeconomic statecraft that merely reflect official pronouncements to situate the agreement in terms of the framework of militarised neoliberalism. We argue that, what we call the technology, mining, energy complex, is being constituted within new security cum economic institutions and arrangements, and that the reconstitution of state and capital is at the heart of the critical mineral agreement.