![Why China, Not the United States, Is Making the Rules for Deep-Sea Mining](http://carnegieendowment.org/images/article_images/GettyImages-deep-sea-reserach.jpg)
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China is leading the international rulemaking process to regulate deep-sea mining, but Washington can still blunt Beijing’s advances (and protect the environment in the process).
This was originally published on Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - articles .