Quoted in The Telegraph (UK)

Cleo was quoted in Colin Freeman's The Telegraph story on the Arctic: 

Yet the fact Beijing has no realistic territorial claim there may not stop it seeing the Arctic as its own backyard, according to Ms Paskal. What Moscow wants to rename as the "Russian Ocean", Beijing may opt to term the "northern Pacific".

"China is an expanding maritime power, and has already shown a 'might is right' policy in the South China Sea," she said, referring to recent military stand-offs with Vietnam over the Spratly Islands. "Potential for conflict in the Arctic is probably limited, but it may lead to a fundamental shift in world geostrategy. For centuries, northern Russia has been seen as a wall. Now it's going to be a highway, which opens up all kinds of new threats."

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Quoted by Bloomberg on the Arctic

Cleo is quoted in Alex Morales' Bloomberg feature Arctic Sea Ice Heads for Record Low as Melt Beats Forecasts. A sample:

“There’s a whole new frontline from a strategic standpoint,” said Cleo Paskal, a geopolitical analyst at Chatham House, a policy adviser in London. “Countries that have been kept apart by a wall of ice are now facing each other for the first time and countries like China are slipping up through the middle.”

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