Some people ought to check themselves before they wreck themselves. It's always, not sometime, good to read the whole article before you quote it and try to prove your point.
Congress Says Yes to Space Mining, No to Rocket Regulations | WIRED
The Commercial Space activities acts that recently passed in congress are a law allowing right of commercial/private space venturer to process material in space, venturer such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic or Rocketplane Kister are now allowed to venture into space flight and commercial space activities.
While the Outer Space treaty defined the "STATE" right on space, which control the "Government" of perspective signatory nation regarding their right on space, the treaty have NO EFFECT on private or commercial space activities.
The Outer Space Treaty
With explicit instruction in said treaty to confer the right (Any right) for non-governmental space venture here
Basically what Outer Space Treaty entail is that Governmental Agency (Such as NASA, ESA or CNSA) are not allow to mine the Space, but it is up to the government to allow the right to non-governmental bodies.
As explain further here if anyone interested
The Space Review: International space law and commercial space activities: the rules do apply
Hence the signing of Commercial Space Activities act does not violate the outer space treaty by the US, in fact, it's more than welcome if Jack Ma, or Lee Ka Shing to part-take into commercial space activities, but if CNSA wanted to do it? They would have broken the treaty.
But then for someone who solely put insult everywhere, maybe these kind of information is quite hard to understand.
