The US is offering a $12m financial package to Greenland and will establish a consulate on the world’s largest island as the Trump administration beefs up its Arctic defences against Russia and China.
News of the financial support to the self-governing territory that is part of the kingdom of Denmark has sparked outrage among opposition politicians in Copenhagen, coming just eight months after the Danish and Greenlandic governments rebuffed US president Donald Trump’s expression of interest in buying Greenland.
A senior state department official said the US consulate would be housed in a Danish military facility in the Greenlandic capital of Nuuk, and that the new consul would move from Copenhagen once coronavirus permitted in the summer.
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