{"id":132630,"date":"2025-07-11T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132630"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:00:14","slug":"us-may-cut-dependence-on-china-rare-earths-by-2028-ceo-says-but-at-what-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132630","title":{"rendered":"US may cut dependence on China rare earths by 2028, CEO says \u2013 but at what cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States is scrambling to reduce its dependence on rare earths from China, with the Pentagon splashing out US$400 million on Thursday to become the largest shareholder in American miner MP Materials.<br \/>\nWhile some say the move will help wean the US off the Chinese supply, a senior American industry executive has warned that a variety of hurdles face US and European mining efforts \u2013 from securing the necessary midstream technology to obtaining government permits for what can be a highly&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3317858\/rare-earth-realisation-us-must-tackle-tech-pollution-despite-pentagon-move-ceo-says?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 United States is scrambling to reduce its dependence on rare earths from China, with the Pentagon splashing out US$400 million on Thursday to&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\/132630"}],"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=132630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}