{"id":133989,"date":"2025-08-04T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133989"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:00:08","slug":"in-us-china-battle-over-rare-earths-developing-nations-are-the-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133989","title":{"rendered":"In US-China battle over rare earths, developing nations are the front line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRare earths are needed for everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles, wind turbines and fighter jets \u2013 and China controls the supply chain. In a four-part series, we look at the race for rare earths, starting with the contest for reserves in developing countries.<br \/>\nFormer Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once said that \u201cthe Middle East has oil, China has rare earths\u201d. His words carry new weight today as China\u2019s stranglehold over the rare earths supply chain gives it leverage in the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3320666\/us-china-battle-over-rare-earths-developing-nations-are-front-line?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 PostRare earths are needed for everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles, wind turbines and fighter jets \u2013 and China controls the supply chain.&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\/133989"}],"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=133989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}