Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is set to visit Greenland on Wednesday as diplomatic relations between Washington and Denmark plumb new depths following vocal US signalling of its desire to take control of the self-governing territory of Greenland. But while president Trump continues to insist it is a matter of national security, he has made no secret of his interest in the vast Arctic island’s natural resources.
It may not be, as it appears on the standard Mercator projection map of the world, as big as Africa – but Greenland is in its own way becoming the object of a scramble for resources by covetous world powers, as Africa did at the end of nineteenth century.
