{"id":147561,"date":"2026-03-09T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147561"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:00:08","slug":"economic-security-101-why-chinas-officials-now-have-to-study-rare-earths-and-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147561","title":{"rendered":"Economic Security 101: why China\u2019s officials now have to study rare earths and supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn his decades toiling as a health official in a coastal Chinese province, Alan Chen has rarely had to study a subject about which he knew so little.<br \/>\n\u201cNd is Neodymium. It is needed for almost all modern EV motors. China dominates the refining of Nd oxide. Dy is Dysprosium. It is needed for magnets to operate at high temperatures and is also essential for EV motors.\u201d<br \/>\nThis was the kind of content Chen pored over in a training course he attended at the Central Party School, the Communist Party\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3345957\/economic-security-101-why-chinas-officials-now-have-study-rare-earths-and-supply-chains?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 PostIn his decades toiling as a health official in a coastal Chinese province, Alan Chen has rarely had to study a subject about which&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\/147561"}],"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=147561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}