fukc you D. Couldn't be bothered to allow a few more letters in the title, could you?
Well anyways.
The Arctic is hot now (no pun intended) and everyone wants a piece of the pie (while it's still hot, so to speak - still no pun intended).
In fact it isn't even as hot now as it is going to be in the near future, and that's a the whole point.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwqn7z02plo
China might not instinctively spring to mind when you think about the Arctic - but it's determined to be a big Arctic player. It's been vying to buy real estate, get involved in infrastructure projects and hopes to establish a permanent regional presence.
China already describes itself as a "near-Arctic state", even though its northernmost regional capital Harbin is on roughly the same latitude as Venice, Italy.