DECRYPTION – The vast island’s subsoil, brimming with critical minerals, arouses the desire of the great powers. The challenge for Washington is to counter Chinese domination of these strategic materials.
Donald Trump junior landed in Greenland on Tuesday, for a purely “tourist” visit, he said. But this trip is of course part of the declarations of his future president father. Donald Trump, who will enter the White House on January 20, has been repeating for several days a refrain already echoed during his first term. Namely: acquire Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Nuuk, the capital of the island located in the south of the Arctic Ocean, is closer to New York than to Copenhagen. And Trump’s wish is not completely new. Washington had already proposed after the Second World War to acquire the big island for 100 million dollars.
But, as in 1946, Denmark and the government of the island which became autonomous in 1979, have twice rejected Trump’s offers, in 2019, and again in recent days. “ The United States of America believes that ownership and control of Greenland »…
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