{"id":26723,"date":"2026-01-20T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=26723"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:41:43","slug":"pacific-beckons-deep-sea-mining-the-next-geopolitical-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=26723","title":{"rendered":"Pacific beckons deep sea mining, the next geopolitical frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/file-20250926-56-4pjwq7-copy.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>When the United States recently escalated its confrontation with Venezuela \u2013 carrying out strikes in Caracas and capturing President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u2013 the moves were framed as political intervention. But the raid also reflected a deeper contest over oil and critical mineral supply chains. For Washington, controlling energy and strategic materials is now inseparable from [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/01\/pacific-beckons-deep-sea-mining-the-next-geopolitical-frontline\/\">Pacific beckons deep sea mining, the next geopolitical frontline<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the United States recently escalated its confrontation with Venezuela \u2013 carrying out strikes in Caracas and capturing President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u2013 the moves were framed as political intervention. But&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}