{"id":133040,"date":"2025-07-18T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133040"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:00:14","slug":"china-exposes-foreign-postal-plots-to-steal-rare-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133040","title":{"rendered":"China exposes foreign postal plots to steal rare earths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostForeign spies have been using China\u2019s postal system to \u201csteal\u201d rare earths, the country\u2019s top security agency has warned, adding that it is cracking down on the smuggling channels.<br \/>\nIn a statement posted on its social media account on Friday, the Ministry of State Security cited various tactics used by an unnamed country that it said could not produce its own rare metals and was stealing the minerals to shore up its own supplies.<br \/>\nThe ministry said it had discovered that a foreign contractor had&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3318733\/china-exposes-foreign-spy-tactics-steal-rare-earths-post?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 PostForeign spies have been using China\u2019s postal system to \u201csteal\u201d rare earths, the country\u2019s top security agency has warned, adding that it is cracking&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\/133040"}],"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=133040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}