ED: this dissertation regarding the US acquisition of Greenland strategy is from China’s perspective.IMO, it is hard to imagine that the Chinese government would allow such a detailed analysis to be published without CCP blessing. It includes multiple points that have not yet received widespread attention due to focus being on the theatrics underway. It also is probable that the issues raised will apply to Canada when it’s turn arrives. (US/Canada strategy will look different even though desired end result will be the same). We will hear similar arguments from MANY countries as the “Rules Based International Order” senses DJT’s moves!

“If the United States succeeds in “owning” Greenland, it will trigger a catastrophic chain reaction”–Zheng Ge.

A very detailed look at how the Trump Gang’s theft of Greenland will play out internationally as seen from the Chinese perspective. Published by Guancha on 10 January, the author Zheng Ge is a Professor and doctoral supervisor of Kaiyuan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

This seemingly bizarre event is no accident—it is a fuse that has detonated a geostrategic impulse buried for a century and a half and dragged the international legal order of the 21st century into a fundamental crisis of legitimacy.

It (Greenland) guards the GIUK gap between North America and Europe (Greenland-Iceland-UK), which is the main conduit for the Russian Northern Fleet into the Atlantic Ocean and is the northern pillar of the US ballistic missile warning system. As the Arctic sea ice melts, the commercial value of the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route has surged, and Greenland has changed from a strategic barrier to a strategic corridor. Under the ice sheet, there is one of the world’s largest undeveloped rare earth deposits, as well as key minerals such as uranium and zinc. In the context of global supply chain restructuring, these resources are directly related to the balance of technology and industrial competition between major powers.

Trump’s “island purchase” remarks are nothing more than the naked business logic of the strategic planning in the Pentagon briefing. Beneath its absurd shell is a crude challenge to the basic norms of modern international relations.

Finally, and most seriously, if the United States succeeds in changing Greenland’s legal status through any coercion, inducement, or legal brinkmanship tactics, it will set an extremely dangerous precedent in international law and have a global and systemic impact on the rules-based international order. To sum up, the Greenland issue is by no means an isolated geopolitical event, but a severe stress test for the international legal order.

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/trump-gang-theft-of-greenland-view