Understood. Thank you very much for that clarification.
The CSIS director, Daniel Rogers, has said, “Non-Arctic states, including the People's Republic of China, seek to gain a strategic and economic foothold in the region.”
I think we have a pretty good idea of what the economic foothold is that they seek to gain, but could you talk about what kind of strategic foothold they seek to gain? In other words, could you be a little more pedestrian about what a strategic foothold is? What are we talking about here in terms of a strategic foothold? Are we talking infrastructure, or clandestine agents or proxy agents surveilling the Arctic region? What do we mean when we say they are seeking to gain a strategic foothold?