The polar regions are an important area for China’s rise to global power. Indeed, it has has long-term strategic and economic interests in the Arctic. These are some of the reasons for its activities there. (Photo: CHINARE) The Arctic Ocean has long been at the...
The first icebreaker built entirely in China, Xue Long 2 (“Snow Dragon 2,” right), entered service in 2019, its predecessor (left),a former Ukrainian vessel, already in 1993. Both carry out supply and research work in the Arctic and Antarctic. The new...
At the western end of the Northeast Passage, Murmansk, once the gateway to the North Pole, Franz Josef Land and the legendary waterway, is waiting for a tourist link to the Russian Far East to re-emerge. Image: Michael Wenger Since February 24 last year, many things...
Since 2020, Arktika has been escorting LNG carriers from Siberian petrochemical complexes between Murmansk and the Bering Strait. Image: Rosatom The conflict in Ukraine is straining the political and economic situation in the Russian Arctic, and the dream of free...
In 2013, Thai marine biologist Suchana Chavanich was the first female diver off China’s Great Wall Station in 30 years. Photo: Handout Thailand is one of the countries that did not sign the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 and consequently is not allowed to conduct its...
