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Canada’s Arctic

Canada’s Arctic. Or Is It?. Canada’s Arctic?. Chinese Ambition – April 20, 2012.

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Canada’s Arctic

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  1. Canada’s Arctic Or Is It?

  2. Canada’s Arctic? Chinese Ambition – April 20, 2012 (Reuters) - China signed accords on energy cooperation and the Arctic in Iceland on Friday as Premier Wen Jiabao started a tour of northern Europe that will focus on Chinese investment in a continent eager for funds and to trade with the rising world power. A Chinese developer is fighting a government decision last year to bar him from buying a vast tract of land which some had suggested might be a cover for a possible future naval base and part of a wider strategy to gain a foothold in the region. A livid Huang, who went to university with Icelanders, said the decision revealed Western "hypocrisy" and that foreigners wrongly assumed Chinese firms had ties to China's military.

  3. Canada’s Arctic? Chinese Ambition – April 24, 2012 "We hope to work together with relevant countries, including Iceland and Sweden, to contribute to peace, stability and sustainable development in the arctic," Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao told journalists ahead of the visit. “In a key question whether the Nordic countries and especially the Arctic states will give China some backup in fighting for resources in the Arctic Ocean. . “But China has interest in maintaining the internationalization of Arctic Ocean and also in right for passage for Chinese ships,” Mr. Lun said. “China doesn’t want to pay Canada or US for the right to use it. But the problem is in established powers that protect their own interests”.

  4. Canada’s Arctic? Chinese Ambition – April 16, 2013

  5. Canada’s Arctic?

  6. Canada’s Arctic? When China — along with Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Italy — was granted permanent observer status  in the Arctic Council last month, it left many experts wondering whether a paradigm shift in geopolitics is taking place in the region. “But in the past few years, China has been investing considerable resources to ensure it will be a major Arctic power. Like other countries now looking northward, it wants to exploit the emerging shipping opportunities and the largely unexploited energy and mineral resources in the region.” China’s Arctic Ambition

  7. Canada’s Arctic? China’s Icebreaker Fleet will Outclass USA’s and Canada’s March 2013-China Signed an Arctic Oil Exploration Deal with Russia China Consumes 66% of the World’s Global Fish Catch China Catches 12 Times as Much Fish in Other Country’s Waters as it Reports

  8. Canada’s Arctic? October 2012 Canada Maps Arctic To Claim Extension of Continent

  9. Canada’s Arctic? Canada’s Global Response

  10. Drones

  11. Drones Drone Sales Of 110,000 Units Annually By 2017

  12. Drones Source: TC April 2013 Source: USA Today April 1, 2013 Source: LA Times May 13, 2013

  13. Drones Police Use Source USA Today September 7, 2012 Source: TC January 28, 2013

  14. Drones Drone Development Vancouver Company Manufacturing Drones for the United States Air Force Source: Saanich News Aug 29, 2012

  15. Drones

  16. Drones

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