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Arctic Shipping

Russian and Chinese vessels operating in the Arctic, focusing on the eastern Arctic and Northern Sea Route.

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Jan 26, 2026

Is Greenland indispensable to U.S. defense — or just another expensive redundancy?

is strategically valuable to defense because of its location astride the Greenland–– (GIUK) Gap, existing U.S. installations that support missile warning and space surveillance, and growing from and ,...

Jan 23, 2026

Russia's Claim to Historic Waters

has been steadily reworking the legal and practical contours of what it calls its “historic” or internal waters—from ’s Northern Sea Route to and parts of —deploying domestic laws, baseline redrawings...

Jan 6, 2026

is it true that greenlands waters are filled with russian and chinese ships?

The short answer is: no — the claim that “Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place” is an overstatement not supported by available reporting; there are indeed Russian and...

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