{"id":16936,"date":"2021-08-03T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T10:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16936"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T10:19:32","slug":"pressure-grows-between-african-mineworkers-and-their-chinese-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16936","title":{"rendered":"Pressure grows between African mineworkers and their Chinese bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA global rush for cobalt \u2013 an essential component in the lithium-ion batteries which power smartphones, laptops and electric cars \u2013 has seen a growing number of Chinese companies enter the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), holder of the world\u2019s largest reserves of the metal.The Central African nation has an estimated 3.4 million tonnes of cobalt, almost half the world\u2019s known supply. But in a country where the World Bank estimates three-quarters of the population live on less\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3143667\/pressure-grows-between-african-mineworkers-and-their-chinese?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA global rush for cobalt \u2013 an essential component in the lithium-ion batteries which power smartphones, laptops and electric cars \u2013 has seen a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16937,"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\/16936"}],"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=16936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}