{"id":35822,"date":"2022-02-13T10:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T10:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35822"},"modified":"2022-02-13T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T10:45:59","slug":"the-china-lithium-question-a-clash-of-the-wests-corporate-and-strategic-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35822","title":{"rendered":"The China lithium question: a clash of the West\u2019s corporate and strategic interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe deal went through swiftly \u2013 and almost immediately prompted calls for a national security review.Just three months after Chinese-state-owned Zijin Mining Group announced its US$960 million plans to buy Canadian miner Neo Lithium, the proposal was signed, screened and delivered.At a corporate level, the deal made sense. Neo Lithium\u2019s biggest mine operation is in Argentina, where Zijin already has interests and plans to build a lithium carbonate plant. Canadian officials also said carmakers\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3166882\/china-lithium-question-clash-wests-corporate-and-strategic?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 deal went through swiftly \u2013 and almost immediately prompted calls for a national security review.Just three months after Chinese-state-owned Zijin Mining Group announced&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35823,"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\/35822"}],"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=35822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}