A Chinese shipping company called Sea Legend is reportedly opening an “Ice Silk Road” shipping lane through the Arctic to avoid the volatile Middle East and chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz.
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand on Monday hailed Communist China as a valuable strategic partner, a dramatic turnaround from years of tense relations between Ottawa and Beijing necessitated by Canada’s deteriorating relationship with the United States.
A search is underway for a plane carrying 10 people that went missing as it journeyed across Alaska’s Norton Sound south of the Arctic Circle on Thursday afternoon. It is the third major incident in U.S. aviation over the past eight days.
