28 March 2025, 07:41

By Professor Matt Qvortrup

Strategically located in the Arctic, Greenland is rich in critical minerals and increasingly central to global competition.

It’s not surprising that President Donald Trump wants to annex Greenland “one way or another” – as he put it.

The American President’s designs on the world’s largest island may have shaken belief in the rules-based global order, but for the people in Greenland it’s personal.

This Friday, the Americans – in the form of Vice President JD Vance and his wife - are breaking with diplomatic protocol by turning up uninvited to tour an American military base.

But the reason the Greenlanders – in particular the Inuit population -........

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