{"id":68569,"date":"2024-12-28T02:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/rare-earths-another-reason-we-mustnt-allow-russia-to-win-in-ukraine"},"modified":"2024-12-28T02:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T17:11:44","slug":"rare-earths-another-reason-we-mustnt-allow-russia-to-win-in-ukraine-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68569","title":{"rendered":"Rare earths: another reason we mustn\u2019t allow Russia to win in Ukraine | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dictators in Russia and China should be denied further control of raw materials used in electronics, writes <strong>John E Havard<\/strong>. Plus a letter from <strong>Fawzi Ibrahim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A footnote to the excellent article by Timothy Garton Ash (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/21\/russia-win-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe\">What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025, 21 December<\/a>). The so-called rare earths are essential raw materials for advanced electronics industries. China \u2013 with the world\u2019s largest economically exploitable reserves \u2013 has a major strategic advantage in access to rare earths, underlined by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/04\/us-china-microchips-export-bans-gallium-germanium\">tight export controls<\/a> that it has recently imposed. In Europe, it is eastern Ukraine that has the best reserves. To gain and maintain control of Ukraine\u2019s reserves would be a major boost for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A defeat here for Ukraine, enabled by the failure of the west to provide the long-term support that it has promised, would signal to China that it should not be too concerned about western resolve in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Taiwan is a dominant supplier of the advanced electronics, incorporating rare earths, that will continue to be a major determinant of economic success.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/rare-earths-another-reason-we-mustnt-allow-russia-to-win-in-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictators in Russia and China should be denied further control of raw materials used in electronics, writes John E Havard. Plus a letter from Fawzi IbrahimA footnote to the excellent article by Timothy Garton Ash (What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,470,419,74,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-nato","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68569\/revisions\/68570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}