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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 ...
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 ...
"The status quo is not an option", the latter said: "Greenland is for the Greenlandic people. We do not want to be Danish, we do not want to be American. We want to be Greenlandic", but he understood America's strategic interest in his island. Egede said he wanted to be able to speak to a foreign leader without a Danish ambassador present. [240]
Jeppesen 28, said he hopes to eventually move back to Greenland once he has established himself more with his career. Donald Trump Jr. visits Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 7, 2025.
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 .
He first indicated an intention to buy Greenland in 2019, during his first term as president, but this week he went further, refusing to rule out economic or military force to take control of it.