From Russia & India Report
By Rajeev Sharma
''The Arctic is the new chess board of
international strategic rivalries with Russia being on course to further
beefing up its robust military presence in the region. Despite a rapidly
dwindling population in past quarter century, the Russian Arctic still boasts
of 80 percent of the four million population in the Arctic region. But the
Russians are facing a stiff challenge from China. Much to the consternation and
anxiety of Russia and other Arctic powers, MV Xue Long, China's lone
icebreaker, sailed the Northwest Passage in August 2012. It was an event fraught
with deep political symbolism that conveyed that China will not be on the
fringe – even if it were to be a race for an obscure region.''
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