The question now is whether China or Russia will win it:
Russia has warned the West against staking claims in the Arctic, ahead of an international meeting on the future of the region, where strategic competition has reached levels not seen since the end of the Cold War.
Moscow has recently increased its military presence in the area while also seeking to exploit mineral resources and new shipping routes that have opened up as the ice melts. ...
“It has been absolutely clear for everyone for a long time that this is our territory, this is our land,” Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said at a press conference in Moscow Monday. “Let me emphasize once again: this is our land and our waters.”
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