{"id":674775,"date":"2026-09-24T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=674775"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:30:13","slug":"the-magnet-shortage-that-would-stop-american-manufacturing-before-the-chip-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=674775","title":{"rendered":"The magnet shortage that would stop American manufacturing before the chip shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductors aren&#8217;t the only critical component with a single point of failure. America&#8217;s real supply chain bottleneck sits inside a rare earth magnet that China controls, and domestic factories are scrambling to catch up.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/03\/Defense_Critical_Minerals_41_47_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"The magnet shortage that would stop American manufacturing before the chip shortage\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductors aren&#8217;t the only critical component with a single point of failure. America&#8217;s real supply chain bottleneck sits inside a rare earth magnet that China controls, and domestic factories are scrambling to catch up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}