President-elect Trump's renewed call to buy Greenland from Denmark has once again caused international controversy.
President-elect Donald Trump has renewed unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the US to buy Greenland from Denmark . His call adds to the list of allied countries he is picking fights with even before taking office on January 20. In an announcement naming his ambassador to Denmark , Mr Trump wrote: “For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.
” Mr Trump’s designs on Greenland came after he suggested during the weekend that the US could retake control of the Panama Canal if something is not done to ease rising shipping costs required for using the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He has also been suggesting that Canada become the 51st US state and referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the “Great State of Canada”. Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large US military base. It gained home rule from Denmark in 1979 and its head of government, Mute Bourup Egede, suggested that Mr Trump’s latest calls for US control would be as meaningless as those made in his first term. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” he said in a statement. “We must not lose our years-long fight for freedom.” Mr Trump cancelled a visit to Denmark in 2019 after his offer to buy Greenland was rejected by Copenhagen, and ultimately came to nothing.Donald Trump cancelled a visit to Denmark in 2019 after his offer to buy Greenland was rejected by Copenhagen (AP) “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question,” he said
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