{"id":114981,"date":"2025-10-31T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114981\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:30:10","slug":"china-made-a-real-mistake-by-firing-shots-on-rare-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114981\/","title":{"rendered":"China made a real mistake by firing shots on rare earths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States (US) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that he thinks the Chinese leadership was slightly alarmed by the global backlash to their export controls and that &#8220;everything\u2019s ironed out in terms of the permissions, and we should see a transaction very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Key Quotes<\/p>\n<p>China made a real mistake by firing shots on rare earths.<\/p>\n<p>US and Chinese leaders had reached an \u201cequilibrium\u201d but warned that China would not be able to keep using its critical minerals as a coercive tool.<\/p>\n<p>I think the Chinese leadership were slightly alarmed by the global backlash to their export controls.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an agreement that, ceteris paribus, we have reached an equilibrium, and we can operate within that equilibrium over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Everything\u2019s ironed out in terms of the permissions, and we should see a transaction very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Under the one-year deal, China agreed to postpone the implementation of its rare earths regime and buy large amounts of US soybeans.<\/p>\n<p>Under the one-year deal, China allow American investors to take control of TikTok in the us.<\/p>\n<p>The US and China would sign the deal over the coming week and was confident it would stick.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States (US) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that he thinks the Chinese leadership was slightly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-114981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}