{"id":142390,"date":"2025-12-15T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142390"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:00:09","slug":"why-chinas-growing-demand-for-rare-earth-steel-is-bad-news-for-americas-f-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142390","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s growing demand for rare earth steel is bad news for America\u2019s F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAt a sprawling industrial complex in the Inner Mongolian city of Baotou, workers feed bag after bag of rare earth additives into roaring furnaces, turning ordinary steel into a high-performance alloy worth twice as much.<br \/>\nThis is the front line of a technological leap being powered by China\u2019s dominance in critical minerals and its strategic industrial policy.<br \/>\nThe advanced rare earth steel being produced is used in the country\u2019s most ambitious engineering projects \u2013 from high-speed railways to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3336457\/why-chinas-growing-demand-rare-earth-steel-bad-news-americas-f-35?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 PostAt a sprawling industrial complex in the Inner Mongolian city of Baotou, workers feed bag after bag of rare earth additives into roaring furnaces,&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\/142390"}],"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=142390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}