{"id":701068,"date":"2026-06-25T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701068"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:47:41","slug":"european-rearmament-efforts-snuffed-by-chinese-control-of-critical-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701068","title":{"rendered":"European Rearmament Efforts Snuffed By Chinese Control Of Critical Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China announced it is targeting US rare earths firms in response to a Pentagon list of Chinese firms&#8230;&#8230;European Union&#8217;s aggressive plans to boost defense capabilities are <em>hampered by China&#8217;s export controls and sales restrictions on critical raw materials.<\/em> For 17 of the 34 materials classified as critical by the EU, China accounts for at least 70% of global mining or refining, a report published by Teer in May shows. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eight of those 34 materials are subject to Chinese export controls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/european-rearmament-efforts-stomped-chinese-control-critical-materials\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/military\/european-rearmament-efforts-stomped-chinese-control-critical-materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Article is written as-if the problem is European rearmament &#8211; however &#8211; I suspect that US is affected also.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China announced it is targeting US rare earths firms in response to a Pentagon list of Chinese firms&#8230;&#8230;European Union&#8217;s aggressive plans to boost defense capabilities are hampered by China&#8217;s export controls and sales restrictions on critical raw materials. For 17 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701079,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701068\/revisions\/701079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}