Kings Bay — the Norwegian limited liability state company that manages a Norwegian research station in Ny-Ålesund in the Svalbard archipelago where China opened its "Yellow River Station" in 2004 — will ask the 
Polar Research Institute of China to remove two white stone lions and a gold-colored name plaque with "Yellow River Station" in English and Chinese at the entrance of the Chinese research facility in a subtle reassertion of Norwegian sovereignty over the geopolitically sensitive region.
Norwegian authorities want to make it clear with the request that there’s only one research station in Ny-Ålesund, that it’s Norwegian, and that Norway hosts all researchers on Svalbard.
The sign and the stone lions go against that. "The sign says ‘Yellow River Station’, even though it is a research office and not a research station."
"This situation had been building for some time as the Norwegian authorities were never comfortable with national symbols displayed at Ny-Ålesund, especially something as ostentatious as the lions.”
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