SIPRI to launch report on China

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), with the support of the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, will launch a new report entitled “China and the High North prepare for an ice-free Arctic” at a launch event, hosted by the Norwegian Polytechnical Association.

The report is written by Beijing-based SIPRI Senior Researcher Linda Jakobson, Acting Director of the SIPRI Programme on China and Global Security, and is the first of its kind, drawing heavily on Chinese sources and interviews with Chinese scholars and officials The seminar is on March 1, at Klubben, Handverkeren, Rosenkrantz gt 7, Oslo,
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Gry Larsen is State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of foreign and security policy issues ranging from human rights to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. Her portfolio also covers NATO, Afghanistan/Pakistan as well as Africa. Dr Bates Gill is Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He is a renowned international expert on Chinese security policy and the author of Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy

Linda Jakobson is based in Beijing and acting director for SIPRI's program on China and Global Security. She has written extensively on China's Taiwan policy and, more recently, on China's climate policy.

In their presentations they will argue that there is room for intensifying Norway's cooperation with China in the field of security, both narrowly and widely defined.

SIPRI is an organization that conducts scientific research into questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, in order to contribute to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts and for a stable peace. It was founded in 1966 to commemorate 150 years of unbroken peace in Sweden. In 1964, Prime Minister Tage Erlander of Sweden put forward the idea of establishing a peace research institute to commemorate Sweden's 150 years of unbroken peace.

SIPRI has built its reputation and standing on competence, professional skills, and the collection of hard data and precise facts, rendering accessible impartial information on weapon developments, arms transfers and production, military expenditure, as well as on arms limitations, reductions and disarmament. The Swedish Parliament decided that the Institute be established on July 1, 1966 with the legal status of an independent foundation. All SIPRI research is based exclusively on open sources.

- Asian Tribune -