{"id":158209,"date":"2026-10-01T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158209"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:00:07","slug":"how-china-became-the-worlds-gold-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158209","title":{"rendered":"How China became the world\u2019s gold superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostPerhaps no story illustrates the secret of China\u2019s industrial success better than its rise as the world\u2019s gold superpower.<br \/>\nChina has revered the metal for millennia, yet it has never had a gold-based economy. Its own deposits were simply too scarce.<br \/>\nIn 1975, as China began its economic modernisation, it desperately needed gold to fund reform and build up foreign reserves. Despite its best efforts, it produced a meagre 13.8 metric tons a year. South Africa, then the undisputed king of gold,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3369170\/how-china-became-worlds-gold-superpower?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 PostPerhaps no story illustrates the secret of China\u2019s industrial success better than its rise as the world\u2019s gold superpower. China has revered the metal&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\/158209"}],"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=158209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}