{"id":1832,"date":"2024-05-29T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2024-05-26T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:56:11","slug":"shrewd-sellers-of-arctic-land-unconcerned-by-potential-chinese-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/shrewd-sellers-of-arctic-land-unconcerned-by-potential-chinese-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrewd sellers of Arctic land unconcerned by potential Chinese buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Private land in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is being auctioned off by its owner, with strong interest from Chinese buyers, according to a lawyer responsible for the auction. Such a sale would likely cause geopolitical headaches for Norway and NATO because of Svalbard\u2019s strategic location in the Arctic Ocean. Henry Wilkins has more. Camera: Henry Wilkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/voa-video-ns.akamaized.net\/Pangeavideo\/2024\/05\/0\/01\/01000000-0aff-0242-32a6-08dc7b9d5c25_240p.mp4?download=1\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More about Arctic at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/s?k=arctic&amp;tab=all&amp;pi=1&amp;r=any&amp;pp=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">VOA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private land of Svalbard is being auctioned off by its owner, with strong interest from Chinese buyers, according to a lawyer responsible for the auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-habitat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}