Greenland not for sale, but US waking up to its value


Ilulissat icefjord, a Unesco World Heritage site in western Greenland. – EPA pic, August 17, 2019.

PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s reported wish to buy Greenland may have been rejected by Denmark, but it underscores the rapidly rising value of the massive, ice-covered island due to global warming and to China’s drive for an Arctic presence.

The accelerating polar ice melt has left sparsely populated Greenland, a self-governing part of Denmark, astride what are potentially major shipping routes and in the crosshairs of intensifying geopolitical competition between superpowers.


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