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Ban China From Deep Sea Mining Near Hawaii

Ban China From Deep Sea Mining Near Hawaii
China's most advanced deep-sea research vessel, Dayang Yihao at Ocean terminal in Hong Kong on Aug. 10, 2007. Samantha Sin/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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For years, the United States has been giving away deep-sea mining resources to China through a self-defeating policy of doing nothing. As a result, Beijing is now on the cusp of cornering the undersea mineral market worth trillions of dollars and weaponizing it against us and our allies.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
Author
Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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