President Putin has not yet arrived in Alaska, but five of our large icebreakers have already appeared collectively near the waters of Alaska! The North American Aerospace Defense Command has deployed C-130J coastal patrol aircraft and the U.S. Coast Guard to track and monitor them.
This time, our country has deployed the Xue Long 2, a large icebreaker, which has entered the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea for operations. Both the U.S. and Canadian military are closely monitoring the Xue Long.
Recently, another large icebreaker, Shenhai 1, has also arrived near the waters of Alaska, carrying an unmanned submersible, an autonomous underwater vehicle, as well as the Jiaolong submersible capable of operating at a depth of 7,000 meters.
This is not all. The Jidi large icebreaker has also recently entered the Arctic Bay near Canada. The fourth one is the Zhongshan Xueji No. 1 icebreaker, which departed from Guangdong and has already crossed the Bering Strait.
The fifth one is the Exploration 3 icebreaker, which is China's first large icebreaker designed specifically for global deep-sea exploration, and it is rushing towards the waters near Alaska.
The appeal of the Arctic route and the attraction of the resources on the seabed of the Arctic are both amazing. Especially once the Arctic route is opened, the maritime route from Shanghai to Germany would be shortened by 4,600 kilometers.
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