{"id":152218,"date":"2026-05-30T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152218"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:00:06","slug":"us-agency-goes-back-to-the-future-to-take-on-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152218","title":{"rendered":"US agency goes back to the future to take on China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US agency set up to counter China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative is blending national security with development finance to try to secure a critical minerals supply chain, according to analysts and officials.<br \/>\nCreated in 2019 during President Donald Trump\u2019s first administration, the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) puts its money into private-led projects rather than those led by the state, as is often the case with China.<br \/>\nThe agency operates in more than 100 countries,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3352868\/us-agency-goes-back-future-take-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative?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 US agency set up to counter China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative is blending national security with development finance to try to secure a&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\/152218"}],"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=152218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}