{"id":134124,"date":"2025-08-06T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134124"},"modified":"2025-08-06T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:00:08","slug":"how-china-used-rare-earths-to-turn-on-the-us-chip-tap-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134124","title":{"rendered":"How China used rare earths to turn on the US chip tap again"},"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 the third of a four-part series, we look at how Beijing\u2019s dominance in the critical minerals is matching up to Washington\u2019s lead in artificial intelligence, as well as how they are related.<br \/>\nWhen the US president unveiled his tariffs in April, China knew it had a trump card that had been quietly gaining in value over the decades and that no&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3320951\/how-china-used-rare-earths-and-us-playbook-turn-chip-tap-again?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\/134124"}],"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=134124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}