This is CBSI in the world with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang.

I'm John Bachelorette.

I go immediately to the reporting in Canada and ask for help from Charles Burton of the

McDoria, McDonald's Luria Institute.

CBC headline, Canadian military says it is tracked, stopped, China's surveillance and Arctic

waters filling in the detail.

The Department of National Defense and Canadian Armed Forces say they are aware of recent

efforts by China to conduct surveillance operations in Canadian airspace and waters.

Charles, a very good evening to you.

Thank you for this.

This reminds of the surveillance balloon story of some months past passing over Alaska,

parts of Canada, the United States, until it was shot down by the U.S. Air Force.

What is the reaction in Canada by your national defense speakers about China in your economic

zones preparing for we know not what?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

Well, I mean, it looks as if China is trying to do surveillance and preparation for the

possibility of running nuclear submarines through the Northwest Passage.

China already has been able to send icebreakers into that territory, telling the Canadian government

to accept this at face value that it's for important scientific research.

But in fact, it does seem to be about geostrategic preparations.

China really would like to have control of the Arctic as a bridge between East Asia, North

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