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“We are facing risks from an increasingly assertive, and even aggressive action by Russia and the People’s Republic of China,” McClure said during a panel discussion on security in the High North hosted by the Atlantic Council, a public policy think tank, in Washington.
“That is the most likely and most dangerous risk at the same time,” she said in surveying the challenges in the Arctic, noting a lack of clarity about Russia and China’s intentions in the region.
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Russia, which accounts for a broad swath of Arctic Ocean coastline has increasingly sought to extend its influence in the region.
China too, has increasingly sought to extend its influence in the region, declaring itself to be a “near-Arctic” nation despite having no Arctic coastline.
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Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Author: Joseph Clark, DOD News
Format: Article
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