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• The felling of a single sycamore tree prompted an outpouring of grief last week.
• The tree – known as the “Sycamore Gap” – had been an iconic landmark and its location, Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, is a protected Unesco world heritage site.
• Planted in the late 19th century, the roots of the Sycamore Gap tree reached deep into individual and collective memory.

1. The Holy Thorn of Glastonbury

• After reaching Glastonbury in Somerset, he climbed Wearyall Hill, rested and thrust his staff into the ground.
• Being rooted in the “holyest erth” was no guarantee that the holy thorn would be immune from attack, however.
• But despite its chequered history, traditions associated with the holy thorn endure.
• After the damage caused to the Holy Thorn in 1647, cuttings were taken from which a tree now growing in Glastonbury Abbey is believed to descend.

2. One Tree Hill

• A similarly chequered history belongs to the 125-year-old Monterey Pine which sat on top One Tree Hill or Maungakiekie in Auckland, New Zealand.
• The pine had been planted on the peak to replace a native tōtara tree, chopped down by a European settler.

3. Newton’s apple trees

• There is a proliferation of “Newton’s apple” trees supposedly descended from the tree under which physicist Isaac Newton devised his law of universal gravity.
• As a result, “Newton’s apple trees” are now found across the world, their roots connecting to create a library of human history and discovery.

4. The Shawshank Redemption white oak

• In 2016, strong winds uprooted a majestic white oak in Mansfield, Ohio in the US, made famous by the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption.
• Film fans were distraught and souvenir-hunters rushed to the site, removing parts of the fallen tree.
• Their branches and roots connect the brief history of humanity and the deeper history of our planet.

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• But often western reactions to a Chinese decision can come from a lack of understanding of Beijing’s motivations.
• With this in mind, here are five things that the west often gets wrong about Chinese foreign policy.

1. It’s not a grand scheme

• In the western media, Chinese foreign policy has often been seen as a grand scheme to secure world leadership.
• However, Chinese policy is not quite the labyrinthine plot that it has often been presented as.
• Chinese foreign policy has largely been devised in response to recent developments rather than being a long-term scheme for domination.

2. China deals with democracies

• The Chinese model of economic development has racheted up fears of China attempting to spread its political system beyond its national borders.
• But, some of the biggest advocates of the China model have been the political elites in developing nations, many of whom have a colonial history, and who appreciate that China offers an alternative to the west in attracting investment.

3. China’s role in the world order

• One of the most common depictions of China in recent years has been of it as a revisionist power that seeks to overthrow the liberal rules-based world order and international bodies.
• Such an image was popularised by Graham Allison’s 2017 book Destined for War, which warned of a China seeking to overthrow US domination.

4. China’s historical experience

• But China draws on a different history, one that includes its own dominant position internationally, but also its defeat and occupation.
• Beijing references this past when talking of the “Century of Humiliation” (1839-1949), a period when China was dominated and occupied by colonial powers.
• The Silk Road refers to an historical network of highly lucrative trade routes linking a powerful China to the rest of the world, and used to sell its products for centuries.

5. The appeal of Chinese aid

• China’s financial aid and investment projects in developing countries are sometimes portrayed as simply bribing corrupt states or ensnaring them with “debt trap diplomacy”.
• While these images have been popular in western media coverage of Chinese foreign policy, they overlook the role of the country receiving aid to choose to accept Chinese finance and how this also appeals as an alternative to western aid packages which traditionally come with many conditions relating to governance.

• The project is among several exploration projects located along the proposed route of the Ambler access road (the "Ambler Access Road") (see Figure 1).
• The Helpmejack claims cover a 12-kilometer strike length of the Ambler Schist Belt between the UKMP and South32's Roosevelt project.
• Graphitic schists, calcareous shists, and mafic volcanics seen at Helpmejack resemble those seen in the Ambler Sequence in the western part of the belt.
• Richard Gosse, P.Geo., Vice President Exploration for Trilogy Metals Inc., is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and S-K 1300.