mellowyellow
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Landscape near Kemijärvi, Finland. Photo Credit: Jaro Larnos,
The city of Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland turned down an offer made in January 2018 by China’s state-funded Polar Research Institute to buy or lease the city’s airport, after it informed the Finnish Armed Forces. But the matter is only now being made public.
China wished to finance a new runway with renovations worth about €40 million for an airport that would be used to carry out research and observation flights over the Arctic Ocean, the North Pole, and the Northeast Passage. Funding for a new research laboratory was also envisaged.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/08032021-finland-turned-down-offer-for-china-airbase-in-arctic/
Just been learning about Finland's Winter War with Russia, fascinating stuff, now their border, once divided, is united
https://finland.fi/life-society/a-b...re separated by a 1,340 kilometre-long border.
