We've been working on this since the Biden administration as part of the Lobito Corridor [0] between Angola, DRC, and Zambia [1].
People really overestimate how much of an impact Trump has had on our grand strategy - it's the same people who worked under Obama, Biden, and Trump. We shifted to a more muscular resources policy during the 2010s due to the US-China rivalry.
We're not that different from the French in that regard [2].