{"id":145524,"date":"2026-02-04T02:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145524"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:13:26","slug":"top-us-trade-official-spells-out-plan-to-break-chinas-grip-on-critical-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145524","title":{"rendered":"Top US trade official spells out plan to break China\u2019s grip on critical minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe White House\u2019s top trade official has accused Beijing of \u201cweaponising\u201d its dominance in critical minerals, pledging that the US will use pricing, tariffs, and industrial policy to ensure its entire critical minerals supply chain is in the hands of America and its allies.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Tuesday, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the US needed to mine, process and refine critical minerals, and called on its allies to do&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342305\/top-us-trade-official-spells-out-plan-break-chinas-grip-critical-minerals?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 White House\u2019s top trade official has accused Beijing of \u201cweaponising\u201d its dominance in critical minerals, pledging that the US will use pricing, tariffs,&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\/145524"}],"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=145524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}