#anticipate : China’s growing influence in the Pacific is 5,000 meters deep

Deep-sea mining is its latest battlefield

Editor’s Note: This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network and the environmental outlet Mongabay.

CNN and environmental news outlet Mongabay tracked eight Chinese research vessels that have undertaken deep-sea mining exploratory missions over the past five years. During that period, the ships spent only aroun…