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Greenland was also home to an abundant source of cryolite, a rare earth mineral important for the production of military aircraft in Canada and the U.S. With this in mind, Germany began to ...
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 ...
Why Trump wants Greenland, Panama Canal: One reason may surprise you Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a video. Donald Trump ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede reinforced his nation’s stance: “We don’t want to be Danish, we don’t want to be American — we want to be Greenlandic.”
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 ...