Entering “Yukon” in the search box of Foreign Policy magazine’s website only gets you articles by Yukon Huang, one of their China specialists.
The Japanese advance was halted in 1942, but the war left us with the Alaska Highway and most of the airports we use today.
During the Cold War, Distant Early Warning radar stations were built on the Yukon’s Arctic coast.
Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians reported that China, as well as Russia, engage in sophisticated and well-funded campaigns to influence Canadian public opinion, media and decision-making.
Canada recently joined 40 countries calling for China to allow independent human-rights experts access to Xinjiang, a move which was not well received in Beijing.
On the natural resources front, Chinese capital is unlikely to be an option for Yukon mining projects, as it was for the Wolverine mine in 2008.
It has relatively small cobalt deposits, but Chinese companies own 8 of the largest 14 cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a cobalt powerhouse.
Last week in Brussels, President von der Leyen spoke bluntly about European Union plans.
However, that list does not include some of the most commonly mined minerals in the Yukon, such as copper or gold.