If you take a look very quickly at China's Arctic policy, published in 2018, you will see that China has proclaimed itself a near-Arctic state. It's not just China. The Arctic Council comment mentioned by the earlier panel is very true. I actually attended a number of Arctic Council meetings, and the key, the intent, was to keep the military out of the Arctic Council. A lot was done to do that.
However, if you look at the composition of the Arctic Council and who is an observer, there's not just China. More and more countries are realizing the importance of the Arctic, be it the Northwest Passage or other areas, and for China and Russia, in my opinion, one clear objective is to be able to control it sometime in the future.