{"id":142523,"date":"2025-12-17T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142523"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:00:22","slug":"china-bets-big-on-copper-but-weaponisation-risks-low-unlike-with-rare-earths-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142523","title":{"rendered":"China bets big on copper, but \u2018weaponisation\u2019 risks low, unlike with rare earths: analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is accelerating efforts to secure its copper supply chain, designating the metal as critical across strategic industries such as electric vehicles, artificial intelligence and defence amid rising geopolitical tensions.<br \/>\nProvincial governments are leading the charge. On Monday, Jiangxi \u2013 already a hub for heavy rare earth mines \u2013 pledged in its 15th five-year plan to develop a world-leading hub for advanced copper-based new materials.<br \/>\nThat follows a similar move in Shandong, where provincial&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3336765\/china-bets-big-copper-weaponisation-risks-low-unlike-rare-earths-analysts?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 PostChina is accelerating efforts to secure its copper supply chain, designating the metal as critical across strategic industries such as electric vehicles, artificial intelligence&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\/142523"}],"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=142523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}