{"id":527654,"date":"2010-04-14T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gao-rare-earth-metals-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-14T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:43:00","slug":"its-official-our-defense-system-is-way-too-dependent-on-china-for-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527654","title":{"rendered":"It’s Official: Our Defense System Is WAY Too Dependent On China For Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"figher<\/a>The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has put out a report detailing just how reliant the U.S. military is on foreign sources of rare earth metals. Most shocking: our reliance on China for those imports.<\/p>\n

China dominates the market for rare earth mineral production and, while not necessarily the top source of those elements, dominates the refining game.<\/p>\n

There are other countries vital to the trade, which may benefit if the U.S. decides to shift its reliance from China to other producing states.<\/p>\n

Check Out The GAO’s Warning >
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The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has put out a report detailing just how reliant the U.S. military is on foreign sources of rare earth metals. Most shocking: our reliance on China for those imports. China dominates the market for rare earth mineral production and, while not necessarily the top source of those elements, dominates the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527654","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\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}