Control, Compute, and a Global Open-Source-Offensive: Beijing’s Blueprint for AI Dominance

The United States and China are increasingly locked in a competition over the future of artificial intelligence, but they pursue fundamentally different strategies. While the US channels massive private investment into the race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), China focuses on three core pillars: maintaining political control over AI systems, achieving technological self-reliance in semiconductor production, and promoting open-source AI models as global alternatives to Western platforms. Through initiatives like the AI+ program and its latest Five-Year Plan, Beijing aims to integrate AI deeply into industry, infrastructure, and national security rather than concentrating solely on frontier AI research.

Is Canada Prepared to Defend Its Arctic Sovereignty in a Militarising North?

This article explores whether Canada is truly prepared to defend its Arctic sovereignty in a region that is becoming increasingly strategic due to climate change and geopolitical competition. As melting ice opens new shipping routes and access to natural resources, global powers like Russia, China and the United States are strengthening their presence in the Arctic.

While Canada maintains a historical and political claim over the region, the country faces significant challenges including major underinvestment, limited military capabilities, outdated infrastructure and so on. The article argues that to remain credible, Canada must move beyond their symbolic presence on the territory and invest in long-term capabilities and consistent engagement in the North.

Dynamics Behind the EU Referendum in Iceland

Iceland faces various potential threats and opportunities that will inevitably change the country’s future and strategic independence. The current global shift towards multipolarity and unilateralism represents a serious threat to the autonomy of small states. A valuable option is signing treaties with more powerful states or joining larger international organisations.

The Faroese strategy in a stormy geopolitical sea

The Faroe Islands represent a unique case in which a small geopolitical actor can pursue its goals with pragmatism and determination despite its size and limited resources. The Faroese economy is mostly dominated by the fishery sector, which is also the most relevant element influencing the islands’ autonomous foreign policy and international activity.

China’s AI Talent Camps – and What Can Europe Do?

China has turned education into a geopolitical strategy, producing the engineers behind DeepSeek, ByteDance, and more. The question is no longer whether Europe has noticed. It is whether it can respond fast enough to matter.

CK Hutchison Panama’s Port Ruling in the U.S.- China Rivalry

Panama’s Supreme Court decision declaring CK Hutchison’s port concession unconstitutional has placed a commercial dispute at the center of geopolitical scrutiny. The controversy not only raises questions about legal certainty for multinational firms, but also highlights the strategic significance of the Panama Canal amid intensifying U.S.–China competition.

(Analysis) When Taiwan Becomes the Flashpoint: Inside the Latest Japan-China Tensions

Since Sanae Takaichi’s recent statement on Japan’s potential “survival-threatening situation,” diplomatic relations between China, Japan, and Taiwan have reached a crisis point. All three countries are navigating these new tensions. This article analyses and traces the recent debates and discussions in the three countries.

(Analysis) Is Connectivity A Global Trend That May “Save MENA” from Eternal Confrontation?

Connectivity is emerging as a strategic framework linking states through shared infrastructure, trade, and human exchange. By offering a logic of engagement rooted in concrete economic interests rather than ideological alignment, it may enable MENA countries to gradually overcome patterns of historical enmity acting as a catalyst for regional stability.

[Report] High Politics in the High North: Assessing Transatlantic Policy in the Arctic

Greenland in the 21st century has become a subject of intense fascination by many strategic actors. This is especially true of the United States. As Washington is the primary contributor to the alliance, this is presents dilemmas to European policymakers who countries’ rely on the American led alliance for defense. To deal with these issues, Brussels must understand the context of Greenland’s history and be appraised of potential policy directions for greater autonomy.