{"id":74669,"date":"2025-10-09T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/09\/china-steps-up-control-rare-earth-exports-national-security-concerns"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:22:55","slug":"china-steps-up-control-of-rare-earth-exports-citing-national-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74669","title":{"rendered":"China steps up control of rare-earth exports citing \u2018national security\u2019 concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tightened grip on minerals used in smartphones and fighter jets coincides with tense US-China trade talks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/oct\/09\/water-customers-bill-hike-winter-blackouts-risk-falls-stock-markets-pound-ftse-business-live-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has increased restrictions on exports of rare earths and related technologies as Beijing tightened its grip on the products that are critical for use in smartphones and fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s commerce ministry announced the restrictions on Thursday, arguing damage had been caused to its \u201cnational security\u201d from exports of the technologies \u2013 both directly or indirectly \u2013 to foreign military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/09\/china-steps-up-control-rare-earth-exports-national-security-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tightened grip on minerals used in smartphones and fighter jets coincides with tense US-China trade talksBusiness live \u2013 latest updatesChina has increased restrictions on exports of rare earths and related technologies as Beijing tightened its grip on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,6,50,557,730,1004,2771,58,47,1051,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-international-trade","category-mining","category-mobile-phones","category-smartphones","category-technology","category-us-news","category-weapons-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74669\/revisions\/74670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}