{"id":146519,"date":"2026-02-20T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146519"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:30:08","slug":"pax-sinica-vs-pax-silica-how-china-us-mineral-war-is-taking-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146519","title":{"rendered":"Pax Sinica vs Pax Silica: how China-US mineral war is taking shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIf 2026 were a chess match, critical minerals would be the opening gambit, and both China and the United States are going all out. On January 28, China\u2019s Zijin Mining announced a US$4 billion takeover of Allied Gold\u2019s three African mines. On February 3, Swiss mining giant Glencore entered talks to sell a 40 per cent stake in its Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) copper and cobalt operations to the US-backed Orion Critical Mineral Consortium.<br \/>\nBetween the two announcements, US Secretary of State&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3343940\/pax-sinica-vs-pax-silica-how-china-us-mineral-war-taking-shape?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 PostIf 2026 were a chess match, critical minerals would be the opening gambit, and both China and the United States are going all out.&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\/146519"}],"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=146519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}