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I opened the Barneo Ice Camp website today, and for the first time since the camp was launched in the early 1990s, the home page was in Chinese. My Mandarin skills are questionable at best, but I could still gather the gist: This year, the North Pole is going to have a Chinese vibe. In a way, it's understandable. Unlike Americans and Europeans, the Chinese aren’t afraid of being taken for spies and added to Russia’s “exchange fund” — a handy col…