{"id":716526,"date":"2026-06-21T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716526\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T01:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:42:39","slug":"kazakhstan-enters-rare-earths-minerals-race-as-china-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/716526\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan enters rare earths, minerals race as China alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/materials\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Central Asian country has deposits and mining expertise, but processing remains difficult<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260607N China rare earth\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">China accounts for 70% of the world&#8217;s rare-earth production and\u00a0controls 90% of the processing and refining.\u00a0(Nikkei montage\/source photos by Reuters)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">LONDON &#8212; In the Hilton Astana last week, Kazakhstan presented itself as one answer to a problem worrying governments from Washington to Tokyo: how to loosen China&#8217;s grip on rare-earth minerals used in technologies that power the modern world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Materials Central Asian country has deposits and mining expertise, but processing remains difficult China accounts for 70% of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[16126,28,144,192830,101,165753,49161,5471,10119,4008],"class_list":["post-716526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alternative","tag-business","tag-china","tag-earths","tag-economy","tag-enters","tag-kazakhstan","tag-minerals","tag-race","tag-rare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}