{"id":138820,"date":"2025-10-21T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138820"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:00:10","slug":"can-us-australia-rare-earth-deal-loosen-chinas-grip-on-critical-minerals-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138820","title":{"rendered":"Can US-Australia rare earth deal loosen China\u2019s grip on critical minerals trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA critical minerals framework deal valued at US$8.5 billion between the United States and Australia will allow American buyers to rely less on Chinese rare earth metals, but developing a secure, independent supply chain may take the US 10 to 20 years, according to analysts.<br \/>\n\u201cDeals like this go a long way \u2013 this is a good start,\u201d said Pini Althaus, CEO of US-based rare earth metal investor and developer Cove Capital, adding that Beijing would likely grow \u201cmore concerned\u201d as the deal matures and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3329803\/how-us-australia-rare-earth-deal-aims-loosen-chinas-grip-critical-minerals-market?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 PostA critical minerals framework deal valued at US$8.5 billion between the United States and Australia will allow American buyers to rely less on Chinese&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\/138820"}],"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=138820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}