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All the hoopla about the importance of the Arctic is somewhat belied by a lack of the resources really being devoted to it,
We’ve sort of been asleep at the switch,
said Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. This is about critical minerals. This is about natural resources. This is about, as the polar ice caps pullback, the Chinese are now cranking out ice breakers and pushing up there as well. So it's oil and gas. It's our national security."
You have Russia that is trying to become king of the Arctic, with 60-plus ice breakers, some of them nuclear power,
As the demand for minerals is rising, there is a need to go and look for untapped resources,
said Ditte Brasso Sorensen, an analyst at Think Tank Europa We are still in the waiting room when it comes to knowing exactly what the Trump administration means,
said Lill Rastad Bjorst, an associate professor at Aalborg University specialising in Greenland During the war -– while Denmark was occupied by Germany -– the US took over Greenland. In a sense they have never left,
We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States,
Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said He's popular in Greenland. So he can clearly be helpful to the Danish-Greenlandic relationship,
Damien Degeorges, a Reykjavik-based consultant specialising in Greenland, told Reuters I find it extremely ridiculous,
said Jeppe Finne Sorenson, a data engineer in the Danish capital It seems unthinkable and I don't think anyone expects this to actually happen. It sounds like trolling on the internet, and I guess we can find a bit of comfort in that,
I can't assure you—you're talking about Panama and Greenland, no, I can't assure you on either of those two. But I can say this, we need them for economic security."
President-elect Donald Trump discussing military intervention at Tuesday's Mar-a-Lago press conference That would be up to the opinion of politicians like me and others, whether it would be approved,
It's written kind of like a joke, so I'm not really sure whether to take it – whether to laugh at it or to take it seriously,
We want to keep good relations with the United States. It's good for both of us. We think it's certainly crucial for Denmark, but also on the other hand there are limits to what you can even take,
conservative politician Rasmus Jarlov told CNN host Jim Acosta In my discussions with our European partners, a certain lack of understanding has emerged with regard to recent statements from the USA,
The Danes are hoping that this will blow over with time,
If it's the choice of the people of Greenland to join the greatest country on earth, I would welcome them as our 53rd state, right after we admit Puerto Rico and Washington DC as states,
he wrote on social media Tuesday As a D.C. resident, as an advocate for statehood, as a proponent of participatory democracy, it's unbelievably insulting,
With the mayor of San Juan as bad as she is and as incompetent as she is, Puerto Rico shouldn't be talking about statehood until they get some people that really know what they're doing,
