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2018 sees china issue polar belt road whitepaper   -will the northern coastal belt of eurasia one day offer huge advance in clean energy as well as inclusion of russian in positive world trade  - compare 12 regions new infrastructure investment banking networks  -perhaps only arctic has all of us russia china connecting with cool mediation (finland chairs 2018) , iceland chairs 2019  - there is also a Standing Arctic Council Secretariat at the Fram Centre in Tromsø  - see archives: annual reports

China Polar Belt Road content sections:

Contents   Foreword  I. The Arctic Situation and Recent Changes  II. China and the Arctic

III. China’s Policy Goals and Basic Principles on the Arctic IV. China’s Policies and Positions on Participating in Arctic Affairs

1. Deepening the exploration and understanding of the Arctic    Protecting the eco-environment of the Arctic and addressing climate change

 Utilizing Arctic Resources in a Lawful and Rational Manner  Participating Actively in Arctic governance and international cooperation

. Promoting peace and stability in the Arctic Conclusion    Conclusion

The Arctic Council consists of the eight Arctic States: Canada,
 the Kingdom of Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands)
 Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.
 Six international organisations representing Arctic Indigenous Peoples 
have permanent participant status.

The Artctic circle helps hub national forums -see blue column
iceland hosts annual assemblies in october

• FAROE ISLANDS
• SCOTLAND
• WASHINGTON
• QUÉBEC
• GREENLAND
• SINGAPORE
• ALASKA

could iceland-scotland be great energy partnership   (volcano power)

2018 diary
tufts boston arctic day march 9

CNARC  China-Nordic Arctic research cooperation has been intensified over the past few years and during that period Chinese institutes such as the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) and Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS) have strengthened their ties with international counterparts. Next symposium 

Tromsø, Norway, from 23-25 May 2018 under the theme "Integrated Ocean Management in the Arctic” covering the overarching issues of knowledge building, governance challenges and science-governance interplay.

Thematic sessions include: 1) Fisheries Management in Arctic Waters, 2) Marine Pollution, 3) Climate Change, Maritime Governance and Sustainability in the Arctic

finland brief feb 2018
- it so inspiring when a national leader speaks to youth livelihoods training like timo did at min52.15

- the arctic has huge energy resources both carbon and renewable- could the region  lead the world in   climate race? the arctic provides space for continuous innovation between cluster of nations that dont often meet to share sceince     - eg usa russia china as well as  nations eg finland with  large sovereign funds  -  some webs to tour energy 1                                                                                                     

Global Leaders Forum: Timo Soini, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Listen to Global Leaders Forum: Timo Soini, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland by CSIS #np on #SoundCloud

1 arctic university - finland new university celebrates huge agendas to study with the artic council- related china's artic belt 1 2 collaboration white paper

2..fast track revolution of knowledge economy's missing curricula now possible between engish and chinese speakers thanks to aunty may in beijing.

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• Open position in the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland

• The new project enhance labour opportunities for women in the Nordic countries

2 revolutionary english speaking knowledge curricula now expected from Aunty May in China

jan 2018- Ahead of British Prime Minister Theresa May's Visit to China, the British Ambassador to China Barbara Woodward briefed Chinese media on Jan. 29, 2018 at her residence, saying a post-Brexit Britain would be able to "move a bit faster towards" deepening cooperation with China as well as jointly expanding Sino-UK commercial partnerships into third countries along the burgeoning Belt and Road.

european countries
first to invest in AIIB - UK
sent national leader to Belt Road Forum Beijing May 2017

Greece: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

Hungary: Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Italy: Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni

Poland: Prime Minister Beata Szydło

Spain: Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy

Switzerland: President Doris Leuthard

Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

United Kingdom: Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond  -update may in beijing jan 29018

Germany: Minister of Economic Affairs Brigitte Zypries

Finland:  Minister of Transport and Communications of Finland Anne Berner France: Jean-Pierre Raffarin, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Defense and Armed Forces in the French Senate Serbia: Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic Ukraine: unspecified official delegation Czech Republic: President Milos Zeman

norway erna solberg tw wef co-chair - edu commission ; un eminents;

norway leader women in gov -mandatory father join in parental leave - family frind business model - seafood , tech, gas and minerals, shipping major trade sectors norway - esp new tech - diversifying tn$ sov wealth fund

WEF

Meet the Co-Chairs for our Annual Meeting 2018 | World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/meet-the-co-chairs-for-davos-2018/

Dec 7, 2017 - Our Co-Chairs for the Annual Meeting 2018 (clockwise from top left): Fabiola Gianotti, ErnaSolberg, Christine Lagarde, Ginni Rometty, Chetna Sinha, Isabelle Kocher and Sharan Burrow. ... Sharan Burrow, Fabiola Gianotti, Isabelle Kocher, Christine Lagarde, Ginni Rometty, Chetna Sinha ...

Who's coming to Davos 2018?

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WEF 2018 co-chaired entirely by women - CNBC.com

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/wef-2018-co-haired-entirely-by-women.html

Jan 18, 2018 - The co-chairs of the event include International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde, IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg. ... Solberg told CNBC ahead of the summit that it was "an honor to be asked to be co-chair at the World Economic Forum this year.".

World leaders to meet under all-female co-chair team at Davos 2018

https://www.reuters.com/.../world-leaders-to-meet-under-all-female-co-chair-team-at-d...

Nov 13, 2017 - The next World Economic Forum of world leaders and CEOs in Davos will be chaired by women including International Monetary Fund director Christine Lagarde, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and IBM's (IBM.N) chief executive Ginni Rometty.

https://gbtimes.com/china-pledges-10bn-to-silk-road-arctic-projects-in-russia

China Development Bank (CDB) has agreed to lend up to 65 billion yuan (US$10bn) to Russia’s Vnesheconombank (VEB) for financing projects under 

Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative and the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

The two state-owned development banks signed a framework agreement in Beijing on the sidelines of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to China last week. It follows up on a pledge made by Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015 to seek an integration of the EAEU and the Chinese trade and infrastructure initiative, according to the Russian bank.

Under the agreement, CDB and VEB could co-finance some 70 projects approved by the parties, especially in the Arctic region.

“Within this coordination, we have a number of major projects, in particular those on the Northern Sea Route and China-Europe high-speed link. Currently, there are about seventy projects we could co-finance, which would greatly contribute to coordinating integration processes,” VEB Chairman Igor Shuvalov said in a press release.

“Cooperation between VEB and CDB will significantly contribute to integration processes in Eurasia,” he continued.

The loan deal is the biggest yet between VEB and CDB, which have signed credit agreements worth more than US$10bn over the past 12 years. The two banks had been in talks about loan terms and interest rates since November last year, according to Vedomosti.

US and EU sanctions placed on VEB over the Ukraine conflict prevent it from raising money in Western capital markets.

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China’s Arctic ambitions

China and Russia are seeking to strike a delicate balance between cooperation and competition in Central Asia, the Russian Far East and the Arctic.

The Belt and Road initiative was proposed by Xi in 2013 to boost China’s trade links with up to 70 countries, from Asia to Europe and Africa, including every member of the Eurasian Economic Union – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.

China has so far launched direct Belt and Road cargo train links to 42 cities in 14 European countries, with most of them passing through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland to destinations in western and southern Europe.

Last year, Beijing moved to include an Arctic sea route linking China to Europe in its ambitious initiative. The Polar Silk Road would make use of the Northern Sea Route, which is a shipping lane running between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean along Russia’s northern coast.

For its part, Russia has promoted the Northern Sea Route as an alternative route that would help cut shipping times from Shanghai to Rotterdam by about a week compared to the journey through the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal.

In its first Arctic policy, released in January, China called itself a “near-Arctic state” and said it hopes to cooperate with other countries in the exploration and development of the region and its vast natural resources, which are expected to become available as ice melts due to global warming.

China is cooperating with Russia in a liquefied gas (LNG) project on the Yamal Peninsula, which lies along the Northern Sea Route and has boosted cargo traffic in the shipping lane.

The US$27bn project started commercial operations in December, largely thanks to loans worth US$12bn from CDB and Export-Import Bank of China. In addition, the Shanghai-based Silk Road Fund has invested US$1bn for a 9.9 percent stake in the project.

While Chinese money may be needed to realise infrastructure development goals in the Russian Arctic, Moscow remains keen to protect its sovereignty over the region.