{"id":140331,"date":"2025-11-12T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140331"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:30:08","slug":"rare-earths-chips-and-batteries-what-china-can-and-cannot-weaponise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140331","title":{"rendered":"Rare earths, chips and batteries \u2013 what China can and cannot weaponise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe weaponisation of critical materials was not a bridge that Beijing crossed in the early years of its trade war that began with Washington in 2018.<br \/>\nBut China has grown more confident, and leadership has shifted from hesitation to measured assertiveness on critical-material controls, as demonstrated in its actions this year amid trade tensions with Washington, according to Morgan Stanley researchers.<br \/>\nWith such leverage in mind, this explainer uses their report \u2013 \u201cNavigating China\u2019s Export&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3332513\/how-chinas-rare-earth-leverage-works-limits-risks-and-global-responses?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 PostThe weaponisation of critical materials was not a bridge that Beijing crossed in the early years of its trade war that began with Washington&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\/140331"}],"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=140331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}