As Arctic waters open up, China’s navy could access the North Atlantic through the Arctic sea route north of Britain, and pose a strategic threat to the country, according to Admiral Tony Radakin, Britain’s First Sea Lord.
In a speech on Thursday from the deck of the HMS Prince of Wales, which is docked in Her Majesty’s Naval Base in Portsmouth, Radakin said melting polar ice is “opening up new maritime trade routes across the top of the world, halving the transit time between Europe and Asia.”
