Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, the ex-president of Iceland, also says it’s ‘important not to use scaremongering to justify major policy changes’
He did, however, note that there was evidence of both Russian and Chinese ships and aircraft off the coast of Alaska and the airspace over it, meaning they were closer to the “American part of the Arctic, but not the Greenland part of the Arctic”.
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Grimsson said it went “without saying” that the Arctic had military importance, given it was the “neighbourhood that links North America, China, and also Russia”.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
