Global Powers Eye Greenland’s Rare Earth Minerals and Strategic Arctic Position
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It is not enough to look within Europe; it is simply not enough. Aware of this, the Community Executive has just put on the table a long dozen strategic critical mineral extraction and processing projects that point far beyond its borders — tens of thousands of kilometers, in some cases — and extends across the five continents to ensure access to key resources for the sectors where the future is at stake: energy, technology and defense.


Global powers eye Greenland’s rare earth minerals and strategic Arctic position
COPENHAGEN, June 15 — Greenland, which President Donald Trump wants to annex for US national and international security needs, is an ice-covered self-governing Danish territory in the Arctic. Today, French President Emmanuel Macron will become the first foreign head of state to visit the strategically important 2.1 million square kilometre island, which holds vast untapped mineral resources, since Trump’s annexation threat. Closer to New York Gr…
Interview. Greenland's Annexation Will: "Trump Wants to Make the United States a Great Arctic Power"
Geographer Camille Escude, author of Arctic Geopolitics (PUF, 2024), looks back at Greenland's geopolitical issues, which the United States wants to control in order to face the power of Russia and its Chinese ally in the Arctic.
This autonomous territory of Denmark contains strategic minerals in its soil. Its location is equally so, between Russia and the United States and at the heart of trade routes that could be opened up by global warming.
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