{"id":36775,"date":"2022-02-21T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=36775"},"modified":"2022-02-21T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:00:28","slug":"is-chinas-lithium-quest-fuelled-by-business-or-politics-and-how-far-will-it-go-to-secure-white-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=36775","title":{"rendered":"Is China\u2019s lithium quest fuelled by business or politics, and how far will it go to secure \u2018white gold\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJust days after Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez signed his country up for China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative during a high-profile trip to Beijing this month, the spot price of lithium metal in the Chinese market reached 2 million yuan (US$315,000) per tonne for the first time \u2013 more than four times what it cost a year ago.The two countries happen to be the world\u2019s major players in the supply chain of the metal \u2013 an essential material used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries.Argentina is\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3167615\/chinas-lithium-quest-fuelled-business-or-politics-and-how-far?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 PostJust days after Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez signed his country up for China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative during a high-profile trip to Beijing this&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":36776,"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\/36775"}],"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=36775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}