{"id":137533,"date":"2025-09-30T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137533"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:00:10","slug":"race-to-the-bottom-china-thwarted-as-us-moves-on-deep-sea-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137533","title":{"rendered":"Race to the bottom? China thwarted as US moves on deep-sea mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeneath the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean lie small, black, potato-sized treasures \u2013 polymetallic nodules rich in valuable metals and rare earth elements \u2013 waiting to be unearthed.<br \/>\nStrewn across the sea floor of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, the coveted nodules and other forms of ocean deposits are gaining widespread attention. Yet for all their vast potential, deep-sea mining remains off-limits for now.<br \/>\nThe obstacle is not merely technological feasibility but a lack of legal&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3327260\/why-china-struggles-us-plunges-deep-sea-mining-valuable-metals-and-rare-earths?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeneath the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean lie small, black, potato-sized treasures \u2013 polymetallic nodules rich in valuable metals and rare earth elements&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}