Control over and in a number of islands and bodies of water, from the Northwest Passage (claimed by Canada as internal waters) to the Northern Sea Route (claimed by Russia as internal waters), the Beaufort Sea (disputed by Canada and the US), Hans Island (disputed by Denmark and Canada) and the Lomonosov Ridge (disputed by Russia, Denmark and Canada), is still being negotiated under the aegis of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which includes the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
对大量岛屿及水域的控制——从“西北航道(加拿大宣称为内海)到“北海航线(Northern Sea Route)(俄罗斯宣称为内海),再到波弗特海(Beaufort Sea)(加拿大与美国之间存争议)、汉斯岛(Hans Island)(丹麦与加拿大存争议)以及罗蒙诺索夫海岭(Lomonosov Ridge)(俄罗斯、丹麦与加拿大之间存争议),仍在按照《联合国海洋法公约》(UN Convention on the Law of the Sea)进行磋商。联合国大陆架界限委员会(UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf)也参与到谈判中。
In this bustle of multilateral diplomatic activity, all seems calm, reasonable and transactional for now. But the growing tension in the South China Sea offers lessons for what is to come: a largely ice-free Arctic will bring a new, porous border to a continent that has long had the best borders of them all. Strategic chokeholds such as the Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal and the Straits of Hormuz have, of course, always been contested, and have hosted many military conflicts. The High Arctic will become just such a strategic chokehold, with huge natural resources to boot.
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