Why Trump's eyes are on Greenland: There are large amounts of oil and natural gas on the island

Local time 7th, US President-elect Trump announced that he would not rule out military control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

In fact, this is not the first time Trump has expressed an interest in the ownership of Greenland. What is so special about Greenland? What does Trump remember it for?

On the 7th, a press conference held at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the incoming US president Donald Trump said that the United States would not reject the use of military force or economic pressure to control the Panama Canal and Greenland. For the sake of the "economic security" of the United States. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen should give up Greenland, or he will face high tariffs.

Trump also tweeted that the people of Greenland would greatly improve their livelihoods if Greenland became part of the US.

It is reported that during Trump's first term in office, the US media disclosed that he had repeatedly consulted his advisers to see if the US could purchase Greenland. Trump even confirmed his intention to buy an island to the media in August last year.

On the last day of 2020, Trump reiterated on Twitter: "It is absolutely essential to US national security and the future of world freedom that the United States take possession and control of Greenland."

Faced with Trump's repeated attempts to "add to the shopping cart", the Danish side rejected it strictly.

In August last year, when Trump personally confirmed the intention to buy the island, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark dismissed it as "ridiculous", and the Foreign Ministry of Greenland's own government immediately published on Twitter: Greenland is "un saleable".

After Trump issued a statement on December 22 saying that the United States had to own Greenland, the government of Greenland's self-governing region said on the 23rd: "Greenland is not up for sale. Never will be."

Regarding Trump's remarks on the 7th, Frederiksen reiterated on the 8th that Greenland is not for sale. Greenland belongs to the Greenland people, and I do not believe that the United States will control Greenland by military or economic means.