{"id":151220,"date":"2026-05-12T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151220"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:30:10","slug":"in-a-bind-over-rare-earths-europe-watches-us-china-tussle-from-the-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151220","title":{"rendered":"In a bind over rare earths, Europe watches US-China tussle from the sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a conference centre in The Hague last October, a roomful of Asia-watching European officials and experts were gathered for a symposium on relations with China when news broke that Beijing was expanding export controls on rare earths and other minerals.<br \/>\nCrucially, there was now an extraterritorial element: China could deny exports not only to direct buyers, but also restrict products made in third countries if they contained Chinese-origin rare earth content or controlled inputs.<br \/>\nIn practice,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3353228\/bind-over-rare-earths-europe-watches-us-china-tussle-sidelines?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 a conference centre in The Hague last October, a roomful of Asia-watching European officials and experts were gathered for a symposium on relations&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\/151220"}],"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=151220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}