By the Editor – A free for all in the high north? Certainly, the northern polar regions are unbound by international treaty and thus open to great power machinations and inftuence. And here the author highlights the hands being played by Russia and China to dominate the region without effective push-back by the West. With more ice-free seas, the opening of the northern trade routes will have geo-political consequences (even to our south) we have yet to wrestle with. All truly concerning as our eye has been trans.ftxed, for the last two decades, on the ‘ball’ to the south and…
