{"id":65547,"date":"2024-07-12T01:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/11\/us-canada-finland-ice-pact-arctic"},"modified":"2024-07-12T01:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:18:21","slug":"us-canada-and-finland-form-ice-pact-to-project-influence-into-arctic-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65547","title":{"rendered":"US, Canada and Finland form \u2018Ice Pact\u2019 to project influence into Arctic region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership could produce up to 90 icebreaker ships to counter Russian and Chinese inroads into region<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/oct\/16\/arctic-ice-retreats-climate-us-russian-canadian-chinese-military\">Freezing cold war: militaries move in as Arctic ice retreats \u2013 photo essay<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Canada, the United States and Finland say a newly announced \u201cIce Pact\u201d to build a fleet of polar icebreaker ships will challenge China\u2019s control of the market as nations scramble for influence in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, announced during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nato\">Nato<\/a> summit in Washington, could see as many as 90 icebreaker ships produced by the three countries in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/11\/us-canada-finland-ice-pact-arctic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership could produce up to 90 icebreaker ships to counter Russian and Chinese inroads into regionFreezing cold war: militaries move in as Arctic ice retreats \u2013 photo essayCanada, the United States and Finland say a newly announced \u201cIce Pact\u201d to bu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,633,244,50,848,419,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-arctic","category-canada","category-china","category-finland","category-russia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65548,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions\/65548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}