The massive display of American military might during Xi Jinping’s visit underscores the shift from a unipolar world to a new reality in which the U.S. is compelled to engage with China as an economic and industrial rival of equal standing—one whose influence cannot be overcome by military force alone. For a few seconds at […]
Seventy-five years after the 1951 defense agreement, the new security pact commits Greenland to remaining in NATO even if it one day gains independence from Denmark. The agreement, signed on September 22 by the United States, Denmark and Greenland, has no end date and requires any future Greenlandic state to remain within the Atlantic Alliance. It also allows U.S. vessels to operate underwater and, unless all three parties agree otherwise, bars military bases belonging to non-NATO countries as well as sensitive investments from countries that are neither NATO members nor partners, or members of the European Union.
Donald Trump with Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens‑Frederik Nielsen and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the signing ceremony during the U.N. General Assembly in mid‑September.
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