{"id":130355,"date":"2025-06-01T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130355"},"modified":"2025-06-01T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:00:17","slug":"legal-action-over-dr-congo-lithium-project-on-hold-as-us-challenges-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130355","title":{"rendered":"Legal action over DR Congo lithium project on hold as US challenges China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPerth-based AVZ Minerals has suspended its arbitration case against the Democratic Republic of Congo until later this month, following US encouragement to resolve the dispute over the massive Manono lithium project.<br \/>\nThe suspension, announced last week, comes as the US backs start-up KoBold Metals \u2013 funded by tech billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos \u2013 to acquire AVZ\u2019s stake in Manono.<br \/>\nIf successful, KoBold will pledge US$1 billion (7.2 billion yuan) to develop the project, countering&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3312446\/legal-action-over-huge-lithium-project-dr-congo-hold-us-battles-chinas-dominance?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPerth-based AVZ Minerals has suspended its arbitration case against the Democratic Republic of Congo until later this month, following US encouragement to resolve the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}