Recent comments by former U.S. President Donald Trump about acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal have drawn attention to their strategic significance for the United States. While dismissed as unserious by many, Trump's pronouncements reflect a broader concern about China and Russia's growing influence in the Arctic and Latin America.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly made comments in recent weeks about taking over the Panama Canal and Greenland , and even making Canada the 51st American state. While most analysts have dismissed his remarks as unserious, there is more to Mr. Trump ’s expansionist pronouncements than just a bad joke from a low-information leader who remains a Manhattan real estate developer at heart. Mr.
Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, both of whom have sought to expand their countries’ spheres of influence in open defiance of the rules-based international order. Mr. Trump likely sees nothing wrong with trying to reassert U.S. authority in America’s own backyard. As China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic and in Latin America, the United States has legitimate national-security interests in wanting to curtail their military and commercial activities in these regions. Mr. Trump may have a limited understanding of international law and little regard for the sovereignty of other countries. But in the cases of Greenland and the Panama Canal, at least, his musings should serve to focus much-needed attention on their strategic importance to the United States. China has had limited success in seeking to control Greenland’s abundant reserves of rare-earth minerals. But that has not been for lack of trying. As a result, President Joe Biden’s administration has been actively seeking to woo officials in Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory, and pressing its government to adopt a mining-investment law that would favour Western companies over state-linked Chinese ones. “Greenland wants to become the next mining frontier,” Jose Fernandez, the U.S
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