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Center-Right Pro-Independence Party Wins Power in Greenland
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3/14/2025
A pro-independence party has won Greenland's general election. The result comes as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to annex the territory.
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Greenland's center-right pro-independence party has won the Danish territory's general
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elections.
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The result of the vote comes as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to annex the island.
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This year's election focused on business development and mining.
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Greenland is home to just around 57,000 people and has been an autonomous Danish territory
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since 1953.
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It's recently found itself at the center of an Arctic power struggle.
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The United States views the region as vital to its national security.
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And China and Russia are increasing their military presence nearby.
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It's about natural resources and it's about Greenland's geostrategic location exactly
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in the middle in the Arctic, in the middle between North America and Russia.
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So the shortest distance for nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles from Russia to North America
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would go via the North Pole and via Greenland.
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The winning Democratic Party has firmly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's offer for Greenland
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to join the U.S., with polls showing 85 percent of Greenlanders oppose the idea.
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But the party's push for mining reforms has many worried it could give the U.S. more access
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to the island's resources.
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Many residents also worry that the party's push for slow independence may not be ideal,
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amid rising geopolitical competition in the region.
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It is important, but I don't think it's going to happen now, especially with how the world
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is.
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I think if we become independent right now, America is going to take over.
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As Greenland votes for a party that wants to move slowly towards independence, it's
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balancing economic growth with national sovereignty.
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With global powers eyeing the territory, the island is moving towards both change and an
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uncertain future.
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Hank Shi and Chelsea Wu for Taiwan Plus.
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