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the region, the country faces significant challenges including major underinvestment, limited military capabilities, outdated infrastructure and so on.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.

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.

[REPORT] Greenland on the Chessboard: European Strategic Autonomy Challenge

Greenland is no longer a peripheral Arctic territory but a strategic pressure point where U.S. power projection, European strategic ambition, and local sovereignty intersect. What appears to be a debate about resources or military positioning is, in fact, a deeper geopolitical test of the transatlantic order. The island has emerged as a focal point of great-power competition, shaped by climate change, resource potential, and shifting security dynamics.

In this context, Greenland functions as a geopolitical stress test for European strategic autonomy. It reveals both the ambitions of the European Union to act independently and the structural constraints that continue to bind it to the transatlantic alliance. At the same time, Greenland is not merely an object of competition but an active strategic actor, leveraging its position to balance external powers and advance its own sovereignty.