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India in the Arctic?

Just dug up an interesting piece on India’s growing interest in the Arctic, which identifies three core rationales: a desire to study climate change, oil and gas exploration (India already participates in exploration off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin island), and broader geo-strategic goals (India has aspirations to eventually join the Arctic Council). As Arctic ice continues to recede, expect a broader range of countries – many of whom one would not normally put in the same sentence as “Arctic” – to turn their attention northward.


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  1. […] from Arctic nations (U.S., Canada, Norway, Russia and Denmark), but from other growing powers like India and China, who are seeking a seat the Arctic Council […]

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