{"id":516356,"date":"2010-04-05T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2010-04-05T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:48:30","slug":"japan-securing-battery-raw-materials-with-economic-aid-to-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516356","title":{"rendered":"Japan Securing Battery Raw Materials With Economic Aid to Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4547 aligncenter\" title=\"lithium_mine\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/01\/lithium_mine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the quest to secure the raw materials that are required to build next generation automobile batteries and motors, Japan seems to have grasped the importance of locking down supplies now.<\/p>\n<p>A report in the Japanese <a href=\"http:\/\/e.nikkei.com\/e\" >Nikkei newspaper (subs req&#8217;d)<\/a> says that Japan will loan tens of billions of yen to Bolivia this summer to help them build modern power plants and put solar panels on a hospital. In exchange, Japan will get guaranteed access to Bolivia&#8217;s vast supplies of lithium. Sometimes the difference between &#8220;bribery&#8221; and &#8220;help&#8221; can be so blurry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/05\/japan-securing-battery-raw-materials-with-economic-aid-to-bolivia\/#more-6616\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the quest to secure the raw materials that are required to build next generation automobile batteries and motors, Japan seems to have grasped the importance of locking down supplies now. A report in the Japanese Nikkei newspaper (subs req&#8217;d) says that Japan will loan tens of billions of yen to Bolivia this summer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}