President Donald Trump repeated his desire to buy Greenland, and refused to exclude the use of military or economic coercion to achieve his goal of controlling the independent Denmark region. .
However, the United States is not the only country to monitor the region. In 2018, a state -owned Chinese company offers about $ 550 million to expand two airports in Greenland, but the offer was finally pulled.
Meanwhile, Russia has prepared the opening of ancient Soviet military bases throughout the North Pole since 2015, including Nagurskoye, just 600 miles on the northern coast of Agrinland.
“Greenland is almost a kind of scratch for how the Arctic has become more and more geopolitical and strategy,” according to Callos Dods, professor of political geography at Royal Holway, University of London.
As China and Russia expanded its influence in the Arctic, Greenland has become vital to the US ballistic missile warning system.
“With China and a three -fold novel in ICBM, Greenland plays the role of national defense because of its geography,” said Brent Sadler, a senior research colleague at the Heritage Foundation.
Greenland also provides a unique economic opportunity, thanks to its proximity to charging routes in the Arctic. Shipping through the Arctic roads witnessed an increase of 37 % between 2013 and 2023, according to the Arctic Council.
In 2018, China also announced its intention to build a “polar silk road” linking China and Europe across the Arctic Ocean.
“As the flow of ice in the Arctic changes in the recent past, it is expected to continue to change and open the Arctic charging routes, you have many profitable potentials there,” Shedr said.
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