The first Trump administration, in particular, viewed China’s interest in Greenland as having hidden commercial and military motives, concerns that continued under President Joe Biden’s administration in its recent lobbying of another Australian mining firm not to sell any of its Greenland assets to Chinese companies.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States and does not rule out using military or economic power to get Denmark to hand it over.