Select committee: International Relations and Defence Committee
Conclusion 155
1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
Published 29 Nov 2023
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
Dr Elana Wilson Rowe of the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs noted that if Russia and China’s co-operation in the Arctic moved from the economic realm into the security realm, this would be a “game-changing moment” and this is a dynamic that must be closely tracked. 178 She observed that there was at present a “very small accumulation of datapoints” of Sino-Russian security co-operation in the Arctic. For example, in September 2022 the US Coast Guard encountered Russian and Chinese military vessels in the US EEZ in the Bering Sea. 179
From: International Relations and Defence Committee, 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic, 29 November 2023
Government response
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