China is spending approximately $60 million annually on polar - TopicsExpress



          

China is spending approximately $60 million annually on polar research (more than the U.S.), runs the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration, opened the China-Nordic Arctic Research Center in Shanghai in late 2013... In 2003, China completed the Arctic Yellow River Station, a permanent research facility on Norway’s Spitsbergen Island... Despite being a non-Arctic nation, it will soon have the same number of Arctic icebreakers as Arctic littoral states Norway and the U.S... In 2013, it also became a permanent observer to the Arctic Council – the eight-member intergovernmental forum that is the center of international Arctic policy formulation... China declares itself to be a near Arctic state and an Arctic stakeholder, even though its northernmost territory lies more than 1,000 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:35:14 +0000

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