• Norway's foreign intelligence service sees a growing risk of a more assertive Russia and China as the US pulls back from international cooperation and institutions.
• The weakening of the global rules-based order is "shaking the foundations of Norwegian security", according to Nils Andreas Stensones, the head of the service.
• A change of the status quo in the Arctic is raising the risk that Russia and China also alter their ambitions and behavior in the region, the service said in its annual threat-assessment.

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Norway’s foreign intelligence service sees a growing risk of a more assertive Russia and China as the US pulls back from international cooperation and institutions.

“The political behavior in Washington influences how Beijing and Moscow are thinking and maybe how they are acting in the future,” says Nils Andreas Stensones, the head of the service, known as E-tjeneste,

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Norway is one of the members of the NATO alliance that shares a border with Russia. The Nordic nation has sought to play up its importance for US security as it monitors Russia’s nuclear-armed Northern Fleet near its frontier. Yet it has also reiterated its backing for neighboring Denmark that’s faced pressure from President Donald Trump who wants to take over Greenland.