10,000 Kilometers of Fiber-Optic Cable Show China's Interest in Warming Arctic
- China in talks with Finland to help build polar fiber link
- Among Beijing’s most ambitious forays into sensitive region
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Talks with Finland to build a telecommunications cable on the polar seabed could give China a new entry point to shaping the development of the warming Arctic.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and state-owned China Telecom Corp. are among those participating in discussions about building a 10,500-kilometer (6,500 miles) fiber-optic link across the Arctic Circle. The proposal, which also involves Finland, Japan, Russia and Norway, aims to create the fastest data connection between Europe and China as soon as 2020.