Canada and Russia consider the NWP and the NSR to be their internal waters, while the U.S. objects
In the spring of 2018, the Russian media reacted extremely sharply and painfully to the latest statement made by Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard Admiral P. Zukunft which, on the ...
... straits: Bab-el-Mandeb, Bonifacio, Golovnin, Sunda, Gibraltar, Lombok, Hormuz, Torres, Vries as well as the straits on the Northeast Passage (NEP), Laptev and Sannikov, and the Canadian Arctic archipelago that form the route of the Northwest Passage (NWP)
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About 80% of world trade is seaborne, and 3/4 of that amount pass through the largest international straits and canals. The United States, being one of the largest economies in the world and a key consumer of goods and resources, is interested ...