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China has expanded its presence in Antarctica with its new base in Qinling. Should Australia be worried?


China has expanded its presence in Antarctica with its new base in Qinling. Should Australia be worried?

At the end of last year, a strange video was broadcast on Chinese television. It showed a patch of concrete and steel surrounded by frozen tundra, high on the rocky coast of Inexpressible Island in the icy Ross Sea, deep inside Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. The video zoomed in to reveal a state-of-the-art building that looked […]