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The ‘Polar Silk Road’

16th February 2018

Xue Long
Xue Long, a Chinese icebreaker – Photo credit: Bahnfrend – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

With a lot of fanfare, China has expanded its flagship Belt and Road Initiative to a vast swath of new territory far removed from the Middle Kingdom — the Arctic.

A detailed white paper last month outlined plans for a “Polar Silk Road” that would link Asia to Europe across the frozen far north. As has been widely noted by governments and commercial companies alike, climate change has led to melting ice caps that will open shipping routes and make the extraction of natural resources easier.

China’s Arctic plan spreads a chill

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