America must urgently mend its fences with Greenland
“Nice cop” Marco Rubio needs to reassure the Greenland government that Donald Trump’s rhetoric is no more than that.
Naaja Nathanielsen may not be a household name in the chancelleries of Europe, but she has managed to stir interest and concern in certain quarters, due to a recent interview with the Financial Times. Nathanielsen is Greenland’s minister for business and mineral resources in the new Greenland government elected last March. Its victory was generally perceived as reflecting a desire by the Greenlandic electorate to defer possible separation from Denmark, in the face of threats from Donald Trump to annex the island.
Nathanielsen’s comments to the Financial Times represented a transparent attempt to manipulate the US and the EU, by threatening to allow China access to Greenland’s mineral deposits, its rare-earth minerals alone being potentially valued at $3.5 trillion. “We do want to partner up with European and American partners,” the minister said. “But if they don’t show up I think we need to look elsewhere.”