“Arctic alliance”: Beijing and Moscow plan to build an institutional framework for expansion in the Pacific Arctic region

On October 1, 2024, the United States government announced the first recorded joint patrol of Chinese and Russian coast guard ships in the Arctic Ocean.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, coordinated activity of Chinese and Russian ships was spotted in the Bering Sea, 708 kilometers off the coast of Alaska, near the U.S. island of St. Lawrence.

This area has become the northernmost zone, with the presence of Chinese coast guard ships that the United States never discovered.