Earth Elements: Copenhagen Washington and Danish Funding

earth elements: A Chinese government-backed group's offer last year to build three new international airports on Greenland sparked alarms in Copenhagen and Washington, according to The Japan Times. The Chinese plan was finally nixed in exchange for Danish funding and a pledge of support from the Pentagon. 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. ; It also has untapped natural resources like oil, minerals and valuable rare earth elements that China, the United States and other major tech economies covet. Trump's idea to buy Greenland, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday, is not a serious proposal, said Heather Conley, a specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Greenland has been essential to U.S. defense since World War II, when it was a base for monitoring Nazi ships and submarines passing through the Arctic Avenue, the sea gateway to the north Atlantic. But, she added, The administration has awoken to the Arctic as a geostrategic issue. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.