Eating shoots and raising questions, Chinese pandas arrive in Copenhagen
China hides neither its Arctic interests nor its use of pandas to get what it wants. In Denmark’s case, the two look connected.
Whatever you think of China’s interests in the Arctic, its recent ambitions to play a larger role in the region have been increasingly explicit. Most notably, in January 2018, Beijing labelled China a “near-Arctic state.” With a geographic location as far from the North Pole as Poland, this is a statement that should be taken strategically, rather than geographically.
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