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China’s Arctic Ambitions

China’s appetite for raw materials has become a source of concern from Afghanistan and Mongolia to Peru and Zambia. Now, these tensions appear to have spread to Greenland, where the prospect of Chinese encroachment reportedly helped topple the government in an election held this week. Mining is viewed favorably by Greenlanders keen to reduce their dependence on Denmark, but the 57,000-strong