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2010-03-03 China-Japan-Koreas

China eyeing perks of ice-free Arctic: study

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Posted by gorb 2010-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Sorry. My mind must have been elsewhere when I was categorizing this one. Should probably go under China/Non-WoT

tw at 7:30 ET: Fixed it for you. ;-)

Posted by gorb 2010-03-03 00:53|| 2010-03-03 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah-HA! Now I get it! They didn't support Obama at Copenhagen becasue they want to keep making greenhouse gases to add to global warming so they can control the artic!

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Posted by Bobby 2010-03-03 06:15|| 2010-03-03 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 ArCtic, Bobby. We arctic circle types are sensitive, ya know.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-03-03 08:24|| 2010-03-03 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Give 'em time. Eastern Siberia will be Chinese in two generations.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-03-03 12:54|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-03-03 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Diverting this traffic through the famed Northwest Passage, which according to different predictions could become ice-free in the summer months any time between 2013 and 2060, would cut travel distance by 40 percent.

They mean the North East Passage, which is already sufficiently icefree to allow navigation with help of icebreakers.

The NW Passage is a longer route from China, but already ice free in some years. However, narrow channels make commercial shipping problematic.

Give 'em time. Eastern Siberia will be Chinese in two generations

I'd say less.

Posted by phil_b 2010-03-03 19:49|| 2010-03-03 19:49|| Front Page Top

#6 RUSSIA'S "CHINA THREAT" THEORY > Moscow needs the economic trade wid CHINA to support its vital national modernization while simultan recognizing Chin's LT ambitions = strategic threat to its Far East-SIberia + Central Asia [Chin-desired future "living space"].

RUSSIA'S GOT AMBITIOUS NUCLEAR CHINA ON ONE FLANK, AND AMBITIOUS NUCLEAR-HAPPY/WANNABE RADICAL ISLAM ON THE OTHER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-03 20:42|| 2010-03-03 20:42|| Front Page Top

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