The Antarctic is abuzz with Chinese activity
Xue Long
After crashing through 12-foot waves and nearly 200 nautical miles of ice floes, the two ships drew close to one of China’s stations, called Zhongshan, on Antarctica’s eastern rim . On November 20th members of the mission’s Communist Party committee flew the final stretch by helicopter, bearing fruit and vegetables for the base’s occupants. It was a moment that China relished.is a Ukrainian vessel built in 1993.
Such rivalry is supposed to be absent in Antarctica. It is governed by the 54 signatories of the Antarctic Treaty, which China joined in 1983. One aim of the 60-year-old pact is to keep Antarctica free of military activity . China says it supports that. China has made it clear it wants more say in governing Antarctica. It resents the West’s sway there—evident, as it sees it, in attempts by Western countries to designate protected areas where fishing is limited or banned. China sees these as a bid by Western countries to “re-exert their dominance over the southern ocean”, says Klaus Dodds, who is a co-author of “The Scramble for the Poles”.
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