Arctic cooperation is one of few fields in which the U.S. and Russia have maintained communications, but it's also a major venue for tensions between the top two military powers.
Forces from the United States and Russia trained side-by-side in the Arctic, one of the many regions of the world where the pair have been engaged in a competition for influence.Alex Haley
It added that"no vessels were detected fishing for aquatic biological resources in the maritime boundary line of the two countries," a practice regulated by a 1996 agreement signed between Washington and Moscow. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo caused a stir at a meeting of Arctic country ministers last month by not mentioning the phrase climate change once in his speech and only portraying melting ice caps as a new economic opportunity. While Moscow has also benefited from the opening of previously frozen passages, Russia has discussed the need to battle climate change and has already pioneered in navigating largely inaccessible stretches through its unparalleled fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.
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