Chinese vessel traverses Arctic Ocean for first time

[phantom power]

China has completed its first voyage across the Arctic Ocean to Iceland using an icebreaker. The Arctic's ice melt which experts attribute to climate change is opening new trade routes and exposing mineral resources.

A Chinese vessel has voyaged from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Arctic Ocean for the first time in the country's history, as melting sea ice from climate change begins to open new trading routes.

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16176136,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf

[Junkdrawer]

1. Cue George C. Scott "Mr. President, I submit to you we now have an Ice-Breaker Gap!"

In the background Vera Lynn sings "We'll Meet Again"

[Nihil]

2. "using an icebreaker"

> China has completed its first voyage across the Arctic Ocean to Iceland using an icebreaker.

Great. Break up what little ice remains (albeit single-year) in order to provide yet more
polluting crap to brain-dead consumers in an even faster time.




> The Arctic's ice melt ... is opening new trade routes and exposing mineral resources.

Fucking the planet for profit, one day at a time.