Foreign Affairs committee  And now for something completely different.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for having me, and thanks for the invitation. I'm relatively new to the study of the Arctic, certainly compared to some of the other speakers who have come already. My own background is in the study of East Asian territorial politics and East Asian foreign policy—East China Sea, South China Sea—Chinese foreign policy, and Japanese foreign policy, which is actually what drew me to Arctic studies in the first place.