{"id":27411,"date":"2018-12-30T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T08:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27411"},"modified":"2018-12-30T08:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T08:22:04","slug":"with-an-eye-to-power-and-profit-beijing-is-building-influence-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27411","title":{"rendered":"With an eye to power and profit, Beijing is building influence in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>In its quest to become a global superpower, China has regularly become entangled in territorial disputes with its neighbors, butting up against international law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But there&#8217;s one region on its radar with fewer rivals and where the rules are still being decided: the polar Arctic.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">China sees an opportunity in the Arctic&#8217;s expansive sea of melting ice. Beijing has begun pushing for a greater stake in the region with a view to opening new trade routes, exploring for oil and gas and conducting research on climate change, experts say.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)In its quest to become a global superpower, China has regularly become entangled in territorial disputes with its neighbors, butting up against international law.But there&#8217;s one region on its radar with fewer rivals and where the rules are still being decided: the polar Arctic.China sees an opportunity in the Arctic&#8217;s expansive sea of melting ice.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}