{"id":153433,"date":"2026-06-24T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153433"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:04:07","slug":"2-japanese-held-in-china-over-alleged-rare-earths-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153433","title":{"rendered":"2 Japanese held in China over alleged rare earths smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has detained two Japanese nationals over alleged attempts to take rare earth-related products out of the country.<br \/>\nJapanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said on Wednesday that one of the two was detained by Chinese authorities on May 18 and the other a week later, accused of violating Chinese laws governing the import and export of restricted goods. Tokyo confirmed the detentions, without giving further details, citing privacy.<br \/>\nOne of the detainees is an employee of a Japanese&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3358187\/2-japanese-held-china-over-alleged-rare-earths-smuggling?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 PostChina has detained two Japanese nationals over alleged attempts to take rare earth-related products out of the country. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara&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\/153433"}],"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=153433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}