As global climate change takes its toll on arctic ice, new opportunities are emerging in the far north. Russia is engaging in substantial military build-up, while establishing new sea routes to assist in its exploitation of vast LNG and oil reserves. China has added the "Ice Silk Road" to its "One Belt, One Road" initiative, meant to establish new trade routes between China and the rest of Asia and Europe. Even non-Arctic countries such as India, Singapore, Korea, and Scotland are significantly ramping up their engagement in the Arctic. The United States, by contrast, needs to be reminded that it is an arctic nation - we have all but ceded the region to other powerful actors. Climate change places an obligation on the United States not only to do what it can to prevent the effects of global climate change, but also to think through the challenges and opportunities presented by the warming arctic. Speaker: Lindsay Lyon Rodman, International Affairs Fellow in Canada at the Council on Foreign Relations and Former Senior Advisor for International Humanitarian Policy at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
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