{"id":133558,"date":"2025-07-28T10:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133558"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:06:36","slug":"china-faces-off-against-us-for-domination-of-dr-congos-critical-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133558","title":{"rendered":"China faces off against US for domination of DR Congo\u2019s critical minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAfter years of largely unchallenged control over the DR Congo\u2019s critical minerals, China now faces growing US competition \u2013 a battle that Beijing is determined to win.<br \/>\nThe US reportedly pressured the Democratic Republic of Congo last year to block a Chinese firm from acquiring Chemaf Resources.<br \/>\nNow, a US consortium \u2013 including firms led by ex-military executives \u2013 has bid for the operator of the Etoile copper-cobalt mine. Meanwhile, KoBold Metals, backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, secured a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3319571\/china-faces-against-us-domination-dr-congos-critical-minerals-industry?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 PostAfter years of largely unchallenged control over the DR Congo\u2019s critical minerals, China now faces growing US competition \u2013 a battle that Beijing is&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\/133558"}],"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=133558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}