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Greenland has been looking to boost its independence by diversifying its economy away from fishing. It opened a new airport in Nuuk in November as part of plans to increase tourism. But it still ...
In 2019 both Greenland and Denmark rejected Trump's offer to buy the island. When Greenland was still a colony, the U.S. under then-President Harry Truman sought to buy the island as a strategic ...
President-elect Donald Trump has argued that the U.S. should buy Greenland since his first term in the White House. The island, with 56,000 inhabitants, is an autonomous territory of Denmark, and ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal.Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he's picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20.
Part of why the country joined NATO, Trade Minister Jens Otto Krag wrote in his diary, was that since "the USA's de facto partial occupation of Greenland (which we do not possess the power to prevent)" would cause the Soviet Union to see his country as an American ally, Denmark should benefit from the relationship. [100]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States, renewing an interest first expressed in 2019 when he offered to buy the sprawling Arctic island from ...
Trump previously indicated that he wanted to purchase Greenland back in 2019. At the time, he was mostly drawn to the country’s natural resources and geopolitical relevance .
Far more importantly we should have a Greenland–United States relations article. (What we have is a redirect from Greenland - United States relations to Denmark–United States relations, but it has been proposed to redirect here instead.) In such an article, the present material would make up a good part (unless it was made a "main article ...