{"id":138674,"date":"2025-10-19T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138674"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:00:11","slug":"potassium-railway-chinas-hidden-card-in-the-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138674","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Potassium railway\u2019: China\u2019s hidden card in the trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLandlocked in the heart of Southeast Asia, Laos ranks among the world\u2019s poorest nations.<br \/>\nHowever, for over a decade, China invested heavily to build a dual-purpose passenger and freight railway through the thick rainforest between Kunming and Vientiane, the Laotian capital. This 1,000km (621-mile) rail line, with speeds of up to 200km\/h (124 mph), has been operating quietly for four years.<br \/>\nAccording to a Chinese government study released this month, this railway has become a critical conduit for&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3329355\/potassium-railway-how-north-america-lost-trump-card-trade-war-china?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 PostLandlocked in the heart of Southeast Asia, Laos ranks among the world\u2019s poorest nations. However, for over a decade, China invested heavily to build&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\/138674"}],"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=138674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}