{"id":120326,"date":"2023-10-19T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120326"},"modified":"2023-10-19T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:39:42","slug":"putin-and-xis-grand-vision-to-conquer-arctic-with-polar-silk-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/putin-and-xis-grand-vision-to-conquer-arctic-with-polar-silk-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Xis grand vision to conquer Arctic with Polar Silk Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Putin flaunts nuclear suitcases in China<\/h3>\n

Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin was given the red carpet treatment when he arrived in Beijing this week.<\/p>\n

The Russian leader was in the Chinese capital to attend the global Belt and Road Initiative, which this year marks its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n

Leaders from more than 130 countries had gathered at the conference to hear about the initiative’s direction and plan from Chinese premier Xi Jinping, its target being to connect much of the world directly to China through channels overland and by sea.<\/p>\n

Putin has regularly been at the forefront of China’s Belt and Road conferences and speeches, and this week declared that “Russia and China and the majority of states in the world share aspirations” for cooperation and economic progress.<\/p>\n

His words have reinforced fears that Russia and China are slowly forging a rival bloc to the West, one that is rooted in the various partnerships they have agreed on in the initiative’s plans, including one that would create a ‘Polar Silk Road’.<\/p>\n

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The Polar Silk Road was officially launched in 2018, exclusively between Russia and China, having first been mentioned in 2011.<\/p>\n

While only just off the ground, the initiative has seen China able to move into the highly significant geopolitical region to access new trade routes and search for vital stores of natural resources.<\/p>\n

“China is definitely interested in this, and it will for sure explore it,” Charles Parton, from the Council on Geostrategy, told Express.co.uk.<\/p>\n

“If [the Arctic region] becomes a global issue, China will want to be involved in setting up the parameters, the governance of it all, that’s part of being a superpower \u2014 it’s quite important to it.”<\/p>\n

China has already moved to involve itself in “setting up the parameters” in the region.<\/p>\n

In 2003, it opened a research station on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, which it maintains today, carrying out research into microbes in Arctic ice stores, glacier monitoring, and atmospheric research.<\/p>\n

It has also begun to manoeuvre itself as a country “close to the Arctic”, a definition that it hopes will give it new rights.<\/p>\n

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