Bazillion tons of rare earth metals discovered near Okinawa:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/12/japan-rare-earths-huge-deposit-of-metals-found-in-pacific.html
Minamitorishima:
Minami (south) tori (bird) shima (island)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/asia/japan-rare-earth-metals-find-china-economy-trnd/index.html
Everything we need is there, and there's tons of it, so F*CK CHINA.
Um... yea... but, it's buried under Bazillions of gallons of seawater. Mining such minerals is a DIRTY, nasty, very NON-environmentally friendly process.. (Which, is why only the Chinese, who care so little about any of that, mine it.
That stuff is going to STAY at the bottom of the ocean.