A Blue Corridor
Dec 12, 2019
4 minutes
By Jiang Yin’an
Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar
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The author is an assistant research fellow with the China Institute of International Studies
For businesses using ships as the major means of transportation, the conventional shipping routes from China to Europe, either passing through the Suez Canal that connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea or the Cape of Good Hope on the Indian Ocean, are time-consuming and fraught with fears of violence and instability, as well as heavy traffic. In comparison, a new route through the Arctic is much shorter, taking about a fortnight less.
The white paper on China’s Arctic policy issued last
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