China's Strategy and Activities in the Arctic: Implications for North American and Transatlantic Security
Stephanie Pezard
Bok Engelsk 2022
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| Utgitt | RAND Corporation , 2022
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| Opplysninger | CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO: China's Arctic Strategy: Focus on the North American Arctic -- CHAPTER THREE: China's Presence in the North American Arctic -- CHAPTER FOUR: Impact of Chinese Economic Activities in Other Regions -- CHAPTER FIVE: Potential Impacts of Chinese Activities for the Arctic -- APPENDIX A: "China's Arctic Reach" Background and Scenario -- APPENDIX B: "China's Arctic Reach" Tabletop Exercise Key Takeaways -- APPENDIX C: Chinese Economic Activities in the North American Arctic -- APPENDIX D: Actual and Potential Adverse Impacts of Chinese Economic Activities in Regions Other Than the Arctic: Case Studies.. - Although a non-Arctic state, China has become a significant player in the Arctic region, engaging in economic, scientific, cultural, diplomatic, and military activities in and around various Arctic countries. This report assesses the potential implications of Chinese investments and activities in the Arctic for the regional rules-based order and for regional and transatlantic security. In this research, which was conducted as a collaborative effort between the RAND Corporation and the Swedish Defence Research Agency (Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut, or FOI), the authors evaluate China's strategy and diplomacy in the region and inventory existing activities in the North American Arctic (United States, Canada, and Greenland). The complementary FOI report, China's Economic Influence in the Arctic Region: The Nordic and Russian Cases, is available from FOI's website. Through such approaches as a scenario-based tabletop exercise, this study also takes a broader look beyond the Arctic region to better understand the types and characteristics of Chinese activities that have been problematic and potentially destabilizing in other parts of the world. The authors assess how some of these activities could also arise in the Arctic-a region whose physical, political, economic, and social characteristics set it apart, in many ways, from the rest of the world. They advance five recommendations that the U.S. government-particularly the U.S. Department of Defense-in collaboration with international partners and indigenous populations could take to maintain and reinforce current factors of Arctic resilience and mitigate undesirable Chinese involvement in the region.
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