Harvest deep-sea minerals to combat China

Drew Bond writes in the Washington Times about deep-sea mining to ensure American energy dominance.

China controls the critical minerals that underpin America’s economy, including materials used in missiles, microchips, electric vehicles and data centers.

Without reliable access to these minerals, manufacturing will stall and our technological edge will disappear.

The United States imports almost all these minerals from China. To break this monopoly and secure America’s future, we must broaden our search for these essential resources to a frontier few Americans have considered: the deep seabeds.

Read more in the Washington Times here.