OPINION | Don’t overestimate China’s ambitions in the Arctic

The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long 2 somewhere in the Arctic

Western analysts risk overestimating China’s emergence as an Arctic power, spurred by fears that they initially neglected the reappearance of the Arctic as a theatre for strategic competition. Contrary to such alarmist views, Beijing is in fact far more constrained in the region, mainly because of Russia’s ability to resist encroachment and China’s ability to […]

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