China's strategy and activities in the Arctic: implications for North American and Transatlantic security

Although a non-Arctic state, China has become a significant player in the Arctic region, engaging in economic, scientific, cultural, diplomatic, and military activities in and around various Arctic countries. This report assesses the potential implications of Chinese investments and activities in th...

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Main Author: Pézard, Stéphanie (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA RAND Corporation, National Defense Research Institute [2022]
Series:Research Report
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7249/RRA1282-1
Summary:Although a non-Arctic state, China has become a significant player in the Arctic region, engaging in economic, scientific, cultural, diplomatic, and military activities in and around various Arctic countries. This report assesses the potential implications of Chinese investments and activities in the Arctic for the regional rules-based order and for regional and transatlantic security. In this research, which was conducted as a collaborative effort between the RAND Corporation and the Swedish Defence Research Agency (Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut, or FOI), the authors evaluate China's strategy and diplomacy in the region and inventory existing activities in the North American Arctic (United States, Canada, and Greenland). Through such approaches as a scenario-based tabletop exercise, this study also takes a broader look beyond the Arctic region to better understand the types and characteristics of Chinese activities that have been problematic and potentially destabilizing in other parts of the world. The authors assess how some of these activities could also arise in the Arctic-a region whose physical, political, economic, and social characteristics set it apart, in many ways, from the rest of the world. They advance five recommendations that the U.S. government-particularly the U.S. Department of Defense-in collaboration with international partners and indigenous populations could take to maintain and reinforce current factors of Arctic resilience and mitigate undesirable Chinese involvement in the region
Item Description:Title from PDF document (title page; viewed September 20, 2022)
RR-A1282-1
"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Physical Description:xiii, 165 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 26 cm
ISBN:9781977410184
9781977410559
DOI:10.7249/RRA1282-1

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