02/28/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"I believe the requests made in the defense spending document are inadequate to maintain serious regional competition from the United States in the Arctic region."
"We can't continue to rely on resources from others, I think we recognize that right now, we rely more heavily on China for these critical minerals."
"Right now the Arctic is not a hot spot, and I think we all would agree, we want to keep it from becoming so."
"China's investments in the Arctic have gone from $150B in 2012 to over $300B today."