{"id":72714,"date":"2025-07-02T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/02\/quad-countries-agree-to-diversify-critical-mineral-supplies-amid-china-concerns"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:34:32","slug":"quad-countries-agree-to-diversify-critical-mineral-supplies-amid-china-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72714","title":{"rendered":"Quad countries agree to diversify critical mineral supplies amid China concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US, Japan, India and Australia pledge to reduce exposure to any one country to avoid \u2018economic coercion, price manipulation and supply chain disruptions\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The United States, Japan, India and Australia have pledged to work together to ensure a stable supply of critical minerals, as worries grow over China\u2019s dominance in resources vital to new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The four countries said in a joint statement that they were establishing the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative, aimed at \u201ccollaborating on securing and diversifying\u201d supply chains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/02\/quad-countries-agree-to-diversify-critical-mineral-supplies-amid-china-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US, Japan, India and Australia pledge to reduce exposure to any one country to avoid \u2018economic coercion, price manipulation and supply chain disruptions\u2019The United States, Japan, India and Australia have pledged to work together to ensure a stable supp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,1541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-marco-rubio"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72714","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72715,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72714\/revisions\/72715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}