China reveals Arctic geopolitics to be above Pompeo’s pay grade

The future of the Arctic will be shaped by whoever guides international governance structures, not who controls territory.

By Mia Bennett May 11, 2019
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s swashbuckling fantasies aside, geopolitical competition in the contemporary Arctic is not about who controls swaths of continents or oceans. It’s about who will write the new environmental regulations, the new guidelines for development finance, and the new rules on community consultations.

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