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(Reuters) - China signed accords on energy cooperation and the Arctic in Iceland on Friday as Premier Wen Jiabao started a tour of northern Europe that will focus on Chinese investment in a continent eager for funds and to trade with the rising world power.
Canada’s Arctic?Chinese Ambition – April 20, 2012
A Chinese developer is fighting a government decision last year to bar him from buying a vast tract of land which some had suggested might be a cover for a possible future naval base and part of a wider strategy to gain a foothold in the region.
A livid Huang, who went to university with Icelanders, said the decision revealed Western "hypocrisy" and that foreigners wrongly assumed Chinese firms had ties to China's military.
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"We hope to work together with relevant countries, including Iceland and Sweden, to contribute to peace, stability and sustainable development in the arctic," Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao told journalists ahead of the visit.
“In a key question whether the Nordic countries and especially the Arctic states will give China some backup in fighting for resources in the Arctic Ocean.
. “But China has interest in maintaining the internationalization of Arctic Ocean and also in right for passage for Chinese ships,” Mr. Lun said. “China doesn’t want to pay Canada or US for the right to use it. But the problem is in established powers that protect their own interests”.
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When China — along with Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Italy — was granted permanent observer status in the Arctic Council last month, it left many experts wondering whether a paradigm shift in geopolitics is taking place in the region.
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“But in the past few years, China has been investing considerable resources to ensure it will be a major Arctic power. Like other countries now looking northward, it wants to exploit the emerging shipping opportunities and the largely unexploited energy and mineral resources in the region.”
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China’s Icebreaker Fleet will Outclass USA’s and
Canada’s
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March 2013-China Signed an Arctic Oil Exploration
Deal with Russia
China Consumes 66% of the World’s Global Fish
Catch
China Catches 12 Times as Much Fish in Other Country’s Waters as it
Reports
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Canada Maps Arctic To Claim Extension of Continent
Canada’s Arctic?October 2012
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Canada’s Arctic?Canada’s Global Response
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Drones
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Drones
Drone Sales Of
110,000 Units Annually
By 2017
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Drones
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Drones
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Police Use
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Drones
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Drone Development
Vancouver Company Manufacturing Drones for the
United States Air Force
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Drones
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