A port visit at CFB Esquimalt by a Dosan Ahn Changho-class submarine is meant to demonstrate strategic and industrial benefits of the Hanhwa Ocean bid ahead of Ottawa’s final decision on who will supply the next generation of RCN submarines.

The GIUK Gap – a mainstay of 20th century naval strategy – is taking on new importance amid mounting Russian naval activity, Arctic expansion, and emerging hybrid threats.

Latin America should push back against US threats over Panama and Greenland, and the 1947 Rio Treaty provides the necessary legal framework to do so.

The United States does not need a sovereignty workaround for Greenland. It needs the opposite: a disciplined commitment to consent, clarity, and negotiated access that treats Greenland as a political community, not a strategic asset with residents attached.

President Trump’s Greenland obsession is not a show of strength. It is a self-inflicted liability: alienating a longstanding ally and, by extension, Europe, while pursuing a foreign-policy posture rooted more in impulse than strategy.

This week we examine how a rapidly evolving situation in Greenland could remake trans-Atlantic relations, details of the long-awaited US-Taiwan tariff deal, a shock government offensive that changed the map of Syria, and Canada’s efforts to thaw out its relations with China.

The recent US-Finland icebreaker deal has two objectives: close the capability gap with Russia in the High North and thaw out a long-frozen segment of the US shipbuilding industry.

A thawing Arctic has become the latest frontier of geopolitical competition; here’s what China, Russia, and the United States are hoping to achieve in the region.

The Northern Sea Route holds out the appealing possibility of circumventing shipping chokepoints like Suez and Malacca, bringing Russian exports to new markets in South Asia. But the logistics of operating in the Arctic remain daunting.

Greenland represents an opportunity to secure resources, dominate emerging trade routes, and project power throughout the Arctic. Little wonder it has captured the strategic imagination of the Trump administration.

China and Russia Arctic policy is converging as climate change opens the region up to international shipping. And this is creating new challenges for a US defense establishment that has long taken the stability of the region for granted.

Littoral Arctic states like Canada must take heed of Moscow’s foregrounding of economics and sovereignty in its Arctic strategy, and prepare accordingly.

Beijing isn’t letting geography get in the way of it establishing a robust presence in the next great frontier of geopolitical competition.

In opening its doors to foreign investors, an independence-minded Greenland could be ushering in a new era of geopolitical competition in the Arctic.

The Northern Sea Route through the Arctic will alter global trade flows and in doing so create new geopolitical chokepoints. Chief among them is the Bering Strait, where US, Russian, and Chinese interests converge.

The blunt manner of President Trump’s pitch to buy Greenland might have been ridiculous, but the geopolitical rationale behind it certainly isn’t.

Exploring the geopolitical motivations behind Beijing's desire to build a 'Polar Silk Road' in the Arctic.

Russia is making great strides in the Arctic. Should other Arctic Council states be concerned?