Communist China’s Push to Master the Arctic Opens an Alarming Shortcut to U.S

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National-security officials say Chinese submarines and icebreakers pose a new military threat from the High North.​

Chinese research submarines for the first time traveled thousands of feet beneath the Arctic ice this summer, a technical feat with chilling military and commercial implications for America and its allies.

PREMIUM Soldiers training in Joint Viking exercises near Bardufoss, Norway, in 2023.



U.S. national-security officials say the Chinese undersea expeditions offer fresh evidence of a growing threat from China in the Arctic region, known as the High North. This year, Chinese military and research vessels have operated around Alaska’s Arctic waters in unprecedented numbers, the Dept. of Homeland Security reported in November.


“The Chinese are being more and more aggressive” across the High North, said U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the top military leader of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Chinese vessels on research missions often give cover to military purposes, he said.

Mountains in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Circle.

‘Basically warships’​

A U.S. Coast Guard airplane crew spotted two Russian border-guard ships and two Chinese coast-guard ships about 440 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island.

 

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A good opportunity for the communist navy to help disposed venezuelan president. And show its superpower to the world.