A parliamentary committee in London has heard of a growing interest in the Arctic by the Chinese regime and the danger posed in the region by its strategic alliance with Russia.
On Wednesday the House of Lords’ international relations and defence committee heard from three experts about the threat in the Arctic Circle posed by Russia and also by China.
In 2012 the CCP declared China was a  “near Arctic state” and it has increasingly challenged the dominance of the Arctic Council and its eight members—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States.
Mathieu Boulègue, a global fellow at the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, said: “China has demonstrated a willingness to change the norms and the governance facts in the Arctic. They want a free-for-all global commons.”…