China’s Xue Long 2 Icebreaker Reaches Arctic for 2025 Polar Mission
China’s state-of-the-art icebreaker, the Xue Long 2 (“Snow Dragon 2”), has reached the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska, as part of its high-profile 2025 summer Arctic research mission. The vessel, operated by the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC), departed Shanghai on July 5 and has since threaded a