“…But the big news of the white paper was the announcement that China would now include Arctic states in its “Belt and Road Initiative,” one of the most significant economic and geopolitical developments in our 21st-century world. A “Polar Silk Road” if built, will make China a major Arctic influence for decades to come…”.
For those not familiar with "One Belt, One Road" initiative out of China - an unprecedented infrastructure program (rail, shipping, highways, telecommunications) that will extend throughout and into the southern points of Africa, with goods/commodities/resources hauled out through Kenya/Djibouti through to China by way of Indie and Indonesia, along with transportation infrastructure through many countries out to the port city of Rotterdam in Amsterdam. Basically a pan-Asian/African/European infrastructure network while picking up "friends" (countries, influence on UN votes) along the way by funding, building and constructing this infrastructure (Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, possilby Iraq, Turkey...).
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