{"id":140278,"date":"2025-11-12T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140278"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:00:13","slug":"china-and-cook-islands-team-up-on-marine-survey-as-rare-earths-race-expands-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140278","title":{"rendered":"China and Cook Islands team up on marine survey as rare earths race expands to sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina and the Cook Islands have wrapped up their first joint scientific expedition in the South Pacific, a region emerging as a focal point in the geopolitical race for rare earths.<br \/>\nThe 4,000-tonne Chinese marine research vessel Da Yang Hao, one of the most advanced in China, docked at the Avatiu port near the capital Avarua on Saturday, about one month after a US research ship conducted a three-week survey in the region.<br \/>\nWelcoming the Da Yang Hao to port, Sun Shuxian, the Chinese vice-minister&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3332379\/china-and-cook-islands-team-sea-survey-rare-earths-race-expands-oceans?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 PostChina and the Cook Islands have wrapped up their first joint scientific expedition in the South Pacific, a region emerging as a focal point&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\/140278"}],"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=140278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}