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POLAR PERSPECTIVES - Sanctions, Shipping, and Sabotage: - China and Russia Enter the 'Gray Zone' in the Baltic Sea

21 Nov 2023

However, the Atlantic Alliance did reason to believe that the cases of Balticconnector respond, increasing patrols in the Baltic Sea and and the communication cables are related.” dispatching aircraft and minehunters to the region. [...] peaceful and stable European neighborhood? What exactly were the roles of the Russian and Chinese Regardless of whether the Baltic Sea incident was states in the activities of the “private” companies intentional, and whether the Russian or Chinese involved? And what does this Balto-Arctic incident governments were directly complicit, Sino-Russian reveal about the Sino-Russian nexus with respect to. [...] Given the many incongruities in Sino-Russian behavior The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic on what’s now effectively NATO’s Northeastern of China under Putin and Xi share the view that flank, their active drive for political and economic they have been unjustifiably lambasted by Western synergies as they confront the “West,” and their voices and ostracized from international dialogue. [...] and at least rhetorically believe that it is time to recognize the global reality as “multipolar.” As wars Who, bar Russia (and to a lesser extent China), rage in Europe and the Middle East, it is possible could benefit from sabotage against Western that Beijing and Moscow perceive in the current Cargo ship in the Baltic Sea. [...] “Sharp power” specifically this is the case, it serves as a striking reminder to addresses states’ capacities to undermine faith in or NATO and the EU of the necessity of unified and the function of governing institutions.
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