Month: January 2018

After more than two years of speculation, the government of China announced the publication of its first ever governmental White Paper on Arctic policy (Chinese version here) on 26 January, following in the footsteps of its East Asian neighbours, namely Japan and South Korea, which have also released policy documents detailing their emerging Arctic interests.… Continue reading China’s Arctic White Paper Released →

by Marc Lanteigne This week, it was announced that the China National Offshore Oil Cooperation / 中国海洋石油总公司 (CNOOC) intended to withdraw [In Icelandic] from what was an ambitious oil exploration project in the waters off Iceland. In October 2013, an agreement had been finalised which granted a licence to the partnership of CNOOC and Eykon, a… Continue reading Stumbling Block: China-Iceland Oil Exploration Reaches an Impasse →

The end of 2017 and the start of 2018 will be known as a time when the Arctic came to much of North America, with record low temperatures and severe winter storms in many parts of the continent, including a so-called 'bombogenesis' effect throughout the eastern seaboard, during the holiday season. In Ottawa, with temperatures… Continue reading Interlude: Bombogeneses and Inuit Art →

Pleased to announce the publication, open access, of a new book on the politics and foreign policy of the Russian Far East and the role of East Asia. One of the chapters, ‘Russia, China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Diverging Security Interests and the “Crimea Effect”,’ was written by myself, and there are sections on… Continue reading New Book: Russia’s Turn to the East →