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The \u201cPolar Silk Road\u201d Could Be A Gamechanger For Natural Gas<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s been well over a year since the then-United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis accused Russia and China of being \u201crevisionist powers\u201d each working its way toward making a power grab on the world stage and announced that the U.S. would be shifting its international relations focus away from fighting terrorism and instead prioritize what Mattis referred to as a “great power competition.” Now, 17 months later, it looks like Mattis\u2019 nightmares are coming true as Russia and China have increasingly worked together in defiance of the Trump administration in a kind of diplomatic \u2018marriage of convenience\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping made his eighth official visit to Russia in a trip highly publicized in both Russian and Chinese media. \u201cThis year marks the 70th anniversary of our diplomatic ties and China\u2019s ties with Russia are deepening at a time of profound change in the global geopolitical landscape,\u201d remarked former Chinese ambassador to Britain Ma Zhengang, as quoted by the South China Morning Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most current examples of this newly strengthened relationship between Beijing and Moscow is a new joint venture between state-owned shipping corporations in Russia and China to create a \u201cPolar Silk Road\u201d in the Arctic Sea. a year ago, officials in Beijing announced that China would be pursuing investment across the Arctic Route to encourage commercial shipping through the northern passage as a part of the country\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative. Belt and Road is a massive undertaking involving investments programs worth trillions of dollars, which will go toward connecting Asia and Europe by sea, rail, and road to promote more trade between the continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cPolar Silk Road\u201d Could Be A Gamechanger For Natural Gas It\u2019s been well over a year since the then-United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis accused Russia and China of being \u201crevisionist powers\u201d each working its way toward making a power grab on the world stage and announced that the U.S. would be shifting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[130,15331,23083,26062],"class_list":["post-46682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-haley-zaremba","tag-oil-price-com","tag-polar-silk-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46683,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682\/revisions\/46683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}