Blue Future: Mapping Opportunities for U.S.-China Ocean Cooperation

The United States and China share a deep common interest in ocean protection. The world's ocean and coastal resources are currently under threat from overfishing, pollution, and unchecked resource extraction. Global ocean health is declining rapidly and has already reached crisis levels. As the...

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Published in:Policy File 2018
Main Authors: Hart, Melanie, Conathan, Michael, Johnson, Blaine, Polefka, Shiva
Format: Report
Language:English
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Center for American Progress
Environment
Government
International cooperation
International/Economic development
Water
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Summary:The United States and China share a deep common interest in ocean protection. The world's ocean and coastal resources are currently under threat from overfishing, pollution, and unchecked resource extraction. Global ocean health is declining rapidly and has already reached crisis levels. As the largest ocean stakeholders---with unparalleled dependence on seaborne trade, the economic vitality of coastal cities, and the production and consumption of living marine resources---the United States and China face new, increasing economic and security risks from the degradation of global ocean health. Yet the ocean also represents a tremendous opportunity for the two countries to turn this trend around. To be sure, thus far in 2018, the U.S.-China relationship has trended in a direction that has made game-changing cooperation increasingly difficult to achieve---at least in the near term.