{"id":134184,"date":"2025-08-07T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134184"},"modified":"2025-08-07T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:00:14","slug":"could-the-us-and-europe-go-rare-earth-free-to-escape-chinas-magnetic-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134184","title":{"rendered":"Could the US and Europe go rare earth-free to escape China\u2019s magnetic pull?"},"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 last of a four-part series, we look at how countries are looking for alternatives that could help reduce their reliance on China.<br \/>\nSeventy years ago, the US was the world\u2019s leading producer of rare earth magnets. But by the start of this century, the country\u2019s last producers of the most powerful commercial magnets were being sold off,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3321100\/could-us-and-europe-go-rare-earth-free-escape-chinas-magnetic-pull?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\/134184"}],"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=134184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}