Arctic Worries: Melting Ice, and a Russia-China Partnership

DEEP DIVE – As extra Arctic ice melts and extra avenues for navigation and commerce open up on the prime of the world, there’s a geopolitical competitors underway for Arctic dominance – involving Russia, China and the U.S. And more and more, consultants worry it might result in battle.

“That probability has elevated during the last 5 years,” Joshua Tallis, Senior Analysis Scientist on the Heart for Naval Analyses, advised The Cipher Transient. “The potential for a battle beginning elsewhere, whether or not it’s the Baltic or the Black Sea, and increasing into the Arctic, I believe has grown considerably during the last decade.”