Nothing To See Here, Maybe Just Let A Few Million More Chinese Immigrate While We're At It

 https://x.com/msmelchen/status/2097632959431909759?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Remember earlier this year, when the Trump admin said the quiet part out loud about Greenland and half the Western press treated it like a cartoonish land grab? The coverage was almost entirely about manners. Denmark was insulted. NATO was “at risk.” Greenlanders were “not for sale.” Some of us talked about the geostrategic strategy going on here but people were too caught up in the passions of the topic to listen. 9 months later, the same institutions are writing about China’s Arctic shortcut as if they just discovered the world map. The New York Times is now explaining that Beijing has launched the first regular container service across the Northern Sea Route, the so-called Polar Silk Road, and asking whether the voyage of the Dubai Tower is commerce or a geopolitical flex. Bro I was saying that in JANUARY. Could've been real useful for this explainer to come out then in the heat of the debate, no? China is a self-declared “near-Arctic state” more than 800 miles from the Arctic Circle. That tells you everything does it? It has run joint Arctic patrols with Russia and has turned a seasonal ice corridor into a viable alternative to Suez and Hormuz. Russia controls the permits and the icebreakers while China supplies the cargo, the capital, and the long game. This is a northern flank opening above North America. Meanwhile, let's take a look at Greenland's neighbor, Canada! On September 4, Canada held a “defence coordination dialogue” with China, the first since April 2018, when the Meng Wanzhou (Huawei exec) crisis froze the channel. All of this is part of a broader Carney-era pivot to realign with Beijing. Canada didn't mention anything btw until Beijing printed the read-out. You can oppose annexation, oppose coercion, and still admit the media sequence did not serve the public interest. The US has to start building a political community inside Greenland with control, basing rights in perpetuity, and resource jurisdiction. What the US needs is the ability to deny hostile infrastructure built inside Greenland. The Northern gateway to the Western Hemisphere cannot depend on Danish autonomy while China and Russia industrialize the ice and Canada reopens defense talks with Beijing. Too much is at stake. By the way China's ambitions on the polar Silk Road have been public for more than 8 years now. There's no excuse not to publish this kind of investigative reporting when it was salient and relevant."

 

 

 Since Canada is going to bend over and take it in the shorts from China, maybe the US should do something to avoid the Arctic becoming de facto Chinese/Russian territory.