Agreeing on the Arctic: Why Canada sides with China over the U.S. on how best to manage Northern affairs
“Let’s focus on the positive that comes through international co-operation, and not so much on the sabre-rattling,” he told The Globe and Mail in an interview. He said, for example, there is no reason to challenge China’s formal status as an observer at the Arctic Council.“The whole idea is to engage in dialogue” so that ”we can work co-operatively,” he said. He specifically complimented China for signing on to “a variety of very important agreements that concern the future of the Arctic.
He noted that Canada has used the Arctic as a territory for warmer relations with Russia as well, despite deep differences in other areas. Canada was hardly alone in seeking to rebuff the strident posture adopted by the U.S. at the Arctic Council, an eight-member body that prizes co-operation and whose delegates joke that they are responsible for “high latitudes and low tension.”
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