{"id":155487,"date":"2026-08-01T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155487"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:00:11","slug":"pain-or-gain-us-moves-to-decouple-its-defence-industry-from-chinas-rare-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155487","title":{"rendered":"Pain or gain? US moves to decouple its defence industry from China\u2019s rare earths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA recent US executive order requires major arms manufacturers to trace their multi-tier supply chains and actively phase out Chinese rare earths, aiming to end years of reliance on cheap minerals from China.<br \/>\nFar from a radical policy shift, industry observers view the directive as a long-overdue enforcement crackdown designed to inflict short-term contractor pain for long-term national security gain.<br \/>\nWhile contractors face immediate hurdles to requalify suppliers and find non-Chinese&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3362641\/pain-or-gain-us-moves-decouple-its-defence-industry-chinas-rare-earths?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 PostA recent US executive order requires major arms manufacturers to trace their multi-tier supply chains and actively phase out Chinese rare earths, aiming to&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\/155487"}],"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=155487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}