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#PRC: Arctic: Beijing looks to elbow into a high seat at the table. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#PRC: Arctic: Beijing looks to elbow into a high seat at the table. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19833/china-arctic

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0:28.5

Recently, news came that a tanker filled with Russian crude oil left the

0:34.6

Petersburg area, the Baltic Sea and traveling with the intention of reaching

0:39.9

China. What was significant about this report following it on transponder is

0:46.3

that when it reached the open sea past Norway, rather than turn port side to

0:51.7

proceed down Europe, Africa around it across the Indian Ocean to China, it

0:58.2

turned starboard right side to go over the Arctic to China. Why that matters is

1:06.8

the Arctic Council. Right now, the Arctic 5 Canada Denmark, Norway, Russia and

1:12.4

the United States are all NATO members except Russia. Those are the literal

1:17.6

states on the Arctic. So at this point, you would need to ask the logic of why

1:23.4

China is elbowing its way in. With money, influence, spying, I welcome Gordon

1:30.0

Chang. At Gordon G. Chang, writing recently at Gatestone Institute, to what we

1:35.4

know about China, bullying its way to the table, the Arctic nations. Gordon, a

1:41.1

very good evening to you. China's been building icebreakers. China's been making

1:46.1

claims in the Arctic Council. And you report that here to four, the United States

1:51.5

may be another, but the United States has been obliging. Is that accurate and

1:56.2

why are we obliging to an adversary? That is accurate, John. And it's not just the

2:03.0

Arctic Council, but it's all sorts of institutions across the world that the

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