{"id":7319,"date":"2026-01-20T03:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:02:20","slug":"g7-other-allies-discuss-ways-to-reduce-dependence-on-chinese-rare-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/2026\/01\/20\/g7-other-allies-discuss-ways-to-reduce-dependence-on-chinese-rare-earths\/","title":{"rendered":"G7, other allies discuss ways to reduce dependence on Chinese rare earths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/us-urges-partners-allies-increase-critical-minerals-supply-chain-resiliency-2026-01-12\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/us-urges-partners-allies-increase-critical-minerals-supply-chain-resiliency-2026-01-12<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article outlines the G7 meeting headed by the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. This meeting was to discuss ways of reducing dependence on Chinese critical minerals. These rare, critical minerals which have both military and industrial applications are one of China\u2019s largest exports and are relied upon by many European countries. G7 is an economic forum consisting of the US, Italy, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, France and the EU. The strategies discussed consisted of setting floor prices for minerals, putting tariffs on China, mineral recycling and human rights regulations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If many of the countries do actually diminish trade relations with China, it could do serious damage to the Chinese economy as it would likely lead to other tariffs on a wide range of the country\u2019s exports. With the new peace deal that is in the works with Ukraine and Russia, America could potentially supply the EU with some of these critical minerals which would put even further strain on Chinese exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two most prominent stakeholders in the article are the Chinese government and G7 countries. The Chinese will likely put retaliatory tariffs on many of these countries and could preemptively cease exporting the minerals and other goods to the G7 countries as they have already partially done to Japan. The G7 countries will likely continue seeking avenues to reduce overall reliance on China but it is unlikely a solution will come soon if the Ukraine peace deal doesn&#8217;t go through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article connects to the class through Power. The G7 is going to use diplomatic soft power to reduce its reliance on China, likely in not only minerals but its reliance on China as a whole. This includes tariffs and minimum prices which will force China to compete with smaller scale exporters and reduce its monopolization of the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/us-urges-partners-allies-increase-critical-minerals-supply-chain-resiliency-2026-01-12 The article outlines the G7 meeting headed by the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. This meeting was to discuss ways of reducing dependence on Chinese critical minerals. These rare, critical minerals which have both military and industrial applications are one of China\u2019s largest exports and are relied upon by many European countries. G7 is an economic forum consisting of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/2026\/01\/20\/g7-other-allies-discuss-ways-to-reduce-dependence-on-chinese-rare-earths\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}