TUSAGASSIUUTIT

Postulating a Chinese debt-trap scenario for Greenland runs counter to existing evidence, including Greenland’s trade interests, Denmark’s ongoing policies, and the growing role of the US.

Though zonally restricted, Greenland’s first decision to partially ban whaling is a sign times are changing. For some it signals the loss of Indigenous Inuit culture. For others it is a sign of new jobs and income on the way.

Less than six months into the Biden presidency, it is clear that the Arctic continues to be critical to US geopolitical strategy. 

One proposed mining project in Greenland has been driving many dynamics within Greenlandic politics for almost a decade. As the project inches closer to completion, this enterprise has the potential to affect great power politics as well.

On 6 April, Greenland held both its national and municipal elections. The result of the national parliamentary (Inatsisartut) vote was a decisive victory for what had been the main opposition party, Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA)

Greenland has been the focus of rapid economic development since Kim Kielsen took over as President of the social democratic party Siumut, and as Prime Minister of Greenland in 2014. Now, almost six years later to the day, Greenland finds itself at a crossroads, as Mr Kielsen has been removed as head of Siumut.