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In early January, US President-elect Donald Trump shocked the international community and angered Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen by announcing that the US wanted to take control of Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory. Neither was Greenland Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede silent: “We are not selling or selling.” But why has Trampe suddenly started talking about another state-owned territory, why would anyone care about the island beyond the Polar circle, what the Danes think of it, and what, after all, the Greenlanders themselves? To better understand Greenland’s situation, the Cambridge University Centre for Geopolitics, along with the Scott Polar Research Institute, just held a discussion “Greenland Geopolitics: past, present and future ‘, in which experts from several countries shared their vision.
