- Chinese Foreign Minister’s spokesperson responds to accusations about Pakistan.
- China and Pakistan remain “all-weather strategic cooperative partners.”
- It denies that Pakistan has sent rare earth samples linked to Chinese technology.
KARACHI: China has dismissed media reports alleging that Pakistan supplied rare earth samples to the United States, describing such claims as “ill-informed, fabricated or intended to create division” between the two nations. The news reported.
These comments were made during a routine press conference on Monday when a Global times The journalist asked Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian to respond to allegations that Pakistan had employed Chinese technology to export rare earth materials to the United States, prompting Beijing to impose stricter export restrictions on related technologies.
Reports in early October claimed that Pakistan had sent its first shipment of enriched rare earth elements and critical minerals to US Strategic Metals, a company based in Missouri.
Lin said China and Pakistan remain “strategic cooperative partners at all times” maintaining “high-level strategic mutual trust and close communication on important issues of common concern.”
He added that both sides have discussed Pakistan’s mining cooperation with the United States, and that Islamabad had assured Beijing that its interactions with Washington “will never harm China’s interests or its cooperation with China.”
According to Lin, the samples shown by Pakistani leaders to US officials were gems purchased by personnel in Pakistan, not rare earth materials linked to Chinese technology.
Lin added that China’s recently announced export controls on certain rare earth-related technologies “have nothing to do with Pakistan”, describing the move as a “legitimate action” to strengthen export regulations, maintain regional stability and meet non-proliferation obligations.
Last week, China expanded its export controls on rare earths and related technologies, strengthening its control over global supply chains, Reuters reported.
The new rules, which go into effect on November 8, two days before the current US-China trade truce expires, restrict exports of rare earth extraction and separation technologies, synthetic diamond powders, single crystals, diamond wire saws and related materials.
