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Chinese and Japanese activities indicate the gradual process of consolidating their Arctic policies.
China and Japan see the Arctic less as a strategically crucial point from the traditional security
perspective, but more from the viewpoint of economic security and development. It can be said that
this is a character of a foreign policy of the ―developmental state,‖ which is defined as the seamless
web of political, bureaucratic, and moneyed influences that structures economic life in Northeast
Asia (Woo-Cumings, 1999: 1), whereby the state derives its legitimacy from economic growth and
seeks to adapt the national economy to changes in the global economy (Low, 2001). For the time
being, China appears more than willing to invest more in the Arctic and is attempting to lead the
direction of Arctic development. Japan is willing to build incrementally on the achievements it has
made so far, maintaining its low-profile position as a non-Arctic state, while at the same time
emphasising Japan‘s past extensive contributions to Arctic research, and Polar research more
broadly.
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