More than 3,000 kilometres north of the nation's capital, soldiers, ships and aircraft of Canada's Armed Forces gathered this week in one of the most remote areas of the country to answer one question: How would they board a foreign vessel that neither wanted to be seen, nor stopped.

What if the crew of that ship was near sensitive military sites in the North?

It may seem far-fetched. But vessels run routinely through the north with their transponders switched off — largely invisible to other ships, and not necessarily seen by Canada's satellite and surveillance systems.

The annual exercise is known as Operation Nanook, and took on particular significance this year with a collision of geopolitical changes: China's growing ambition in the Arctic, Prime Minister Mark Carney's plans to substantially increase the capabilities of the military and the newly recognized value of minerals in the North.

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Canada's traditional adversaries have shown growing interest in the North's rich deposits of critical minerals. Not to mention the opening of new, shorter shipping routes between Asia, North America and Europe through the Northwest Passage as climate change makes for an increasing number of ice-free days.

"That would be Russia and, increasingly, China," said Stephanie Carvin, a former national security official and now an academic with Carleton University in Ottawa.

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[–] randomname@scribe.disroot.org -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@humanspiral@lemmy.ca

This is neither disgusting nor warmongering (and, in principal, China should not deliver cheap and unsafe stuff to North America but better reduce their overcapacity and improve consumption at home).

There are many excellent analyses on the issue. As one states, Russia and China are building an Arctic empire:

Canada risks being shut out of critical northern trade routes and resource development opportunities ...

Dalziel analyzed nearly 200 posts showing governors celebrating how Chinese imports are improving Russian lives while their natural resources flow exclusively to Beijing’s markets. The governors openly dismiss Western sanctions as ineffective and promote China as a reliable partner during international isolation ...

Most concerning for Canada, Russia is leveraging its Arctic territory to build what the study describes as “an authoritarian brand” that courts non-Western partners while explicitly rejecting North American and European influence.

The whole study makes an illuminating read. The author warns that democratic Arctic nations must work together to challenge this authoritarian model. By “reinvigorating their own international engagement” through enhanced co-operation on economic development, science, and Indigenous governance, Canada and its Arctic allies can offer a compelling alternative to centralized, authoritarian control.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

in principal, China should not deliver cheap and unsafe stuff to North America but better reduce their overcapacity and improve consumption at home

And after agreeing to your absolute imbecilic absurdity, you will love them forever and stop talking stupid shit about them, right?

We have every right to determine safety regulations here. Other countries are allowed to say that transportation value justifies a one-wheel or murder car, and suicide CO/CO2 poisoning car.

By far the most demonic supremacist portion of your evil statement is that humanist abundance/job creating economics must be attacked to protect our corrupt Oligarchist scarcity and oppressive suppression of opportunity.

Canada risks being shut out of critical northern trade routes and resource development opportunities

No one is allowed, by treaty, to develop outside of their territorial waters. 2. There is no legal project Canada intends that will ever be stopped by China or Russia. 3. If anyone wants to develop just outside of another nation's territorial waters, they should get that nation's cooperation because close market/support access has huge economic benefits compared to distant transport. 4. "The common heritage of all mankind" that is international waters seems like a UN mission to collect proper compensation for mankind. 5. demonic warmongering for supporting US rights to ignore UN, or outright continue direct oppression of Canada's waters, as the US is a close enough market to bring back resources to. Russia or China is not.

Dalziel analyzed nearly 200 posts showing governors celebrating how Chinese imports are improving Russian lives while their natural resources flow exclusively to Beijing’s markets. The governors openly dismiss Western sanctions as ineffective and promote China as a reliable partner during international isolation …

The retardation of a war on Russia has consequences. But China financing/helping another country develop their resources can be great for both countries. China helping Canada to do the same, instead of gaslighting us into being the 51st state prior to gifting it to US is a viable alternative to the suicide path you want to take us on.

Most concerning for Canada, Russia is leveraging its Arctic territory to build what the study describes as “an authoritarian brand” that courts non-Western partners while explicitly rejecting North American and European influence.

Just listen to your pure disgusting hate. We have the supremacist entitlement to diminish Russia, and if they resist their destruction, they are the authoritarian ones.

democratic Arctic nations must work together

... to ignore all laws and treaties and decency. Ever notice how democracy just leads to total unanimity about the virtues of slavery to US and Israel is?