{"id":145630,"date":"2026-02-05T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145630"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:00:11","slug":"from-chinas-chokehold-to-trumps-stockpile-europe-looks-for-least-bad-rare-earth-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145630","title":{"rendered":"From China\u2019s chokehold to Trump\u2019s stockpile, Europe looks for least bad rare earth bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostEU industry chief Stephane Sejourne was in Washington on Wednesday, with a mandate from the bloc\u2019s 27 member states to work towards a memorandum on critical minerals with the United States.<br \/>\nWith the sides keen to reduce their reliance on China, dramatically weaponised during last year\u2019s US-China trade war, the French commissioner secured a \u201ccommitment\u201d to work towards a memorandum within 30 days, to identify joint mining, refining, processing and recycling projects.<br \/>\nIn a joint statement that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342494\/chinas-chokehold-trumps-stockpile-europe-looks-least-bad-rare-earth-bet?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 PostEU industry chief Stephane Sejourne was in Washington on Wednesday, with a mandate from the bloc\u2019s 27 member states to work towards a memorandum&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\/145630"}],"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=145630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}