{"id":298419,"date":"2025-10-12T23:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298419\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:01:12","slug":"us-trade-envoy-jamieson-greer-calls-chinas-new-rare-earths-curb-a-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298419\/","title":{"rendered":"US trade envoy Jamieson Greer calls China\u2019s new rare earths curb a \u2018power grab\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The outlook for US-China relations appeared to hit another snag on Sunday when the US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that China had rebuffed an attempt to communicate, even as US President Donald Trump appeared to downplay the ongoing trade differences.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Trump\u2019s threat on Friday to impose an extra <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3328649\/trumps-100-china-tariff-threat-sparks-market-jitters-exporters-rush-shipments?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">100 per cent tariff<\/a> on all Chinese goods starting November 1 and to curb the export of \u201cany and all critical software\u201d, a doubling down on his China trade policy a day after Beijing widened export curbs on rare earth materials and technologies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Greer, who served in the US trade agency during Trump\u2019s first term, said Beijing\u2019s move to tighten controls on strategic rare earth minerals and magnets was not telegraphed, came as a surprise and was a \u201cpower grab\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI can tell you that we were not notified, and quickly, as soon as we found out from public sources, we reached out to the Chinese to have a phone call,\u201d Greer told Fox network\u2019s \u201cSunday Briefing\u201d programme, \u201cand they deferred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s latest step to expand export controls over rare earth materials, used in a host of hi-tech products from consumer goods to fighter jets, has sent shock waves through US and European policy circles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It also helped trigger a US$2 trillion stock market sell-off \u2013 the biggest drop in months \u2013 on Friday after Trump\u2019s threat to more than double Chinese tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outlook for US-China relations appeared to hit another snag on Sunday when the US Trade Representative Jamieson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":298420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9710,64,74,69,654,72481,50949,67,132,68,152088],"class_list":{"0":"post-298419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-fox-news","13":"tag-jamieson-greer","14":"tag-rare-earths","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-trade-representative"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115363688225501143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}