{"id":130397,"date":"2025-06-02T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130397"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:04:29","slug":"how-dependent-is-americas-arsenal-on-chinas-critical-mineral-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130397","title":{"rendered":"How dependent is America\u2019s arsenal on China\u2019s critical mineral supply?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US defence sector is dependent on critical minerals for its advanced weapon systems, but it has relied on China for most of those inputs.<br \/>\nAs Beijing tightens export restrictions, there is a growing risk to the Pentagon\u2019s military readiness and supply chain security.<br \/>\nThe big picture<br \/>\nChina dominates the global supply of rare earths, including controlling more than 90 per cent of the world\u2019s processing and refining. It also has an edge in most other critical minerals, such as refined gallium,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3312731\/how-dependent-americas-arsenal-chinas-critical-mineral-supply?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 PostThe US defence sector is dependent on critical minerals for its advanced weapon systems, but it has relied on China for most of those&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\/130397"}],"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=130397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}