The fight for the Arctic

北极之战

The Global Story

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2025-01-09

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US President-elect Donald Trump has repeated his intention to take control of Greenland, the Arctic territory controlled by Denmark. Greenland sits between the US, Europe, and the dominant Arctic power that is Russia. And further heating up tensions in the region is the fact that climate change is chipping away at the ice, creating new shipping routes and making key oil, gas and mineral resources easier to access. On this episode, Katya Adler is joined by the BBC’s defence correspondent Jonathan Beale and journalist and author Tim Marshall to discuss the intensifying competition in the region and if we are heading for a new ‘cold war’ in the High North. Producers: Alice Aylett Roberts and Alix Pickles Sound engineers: Phil Bull and Mike Regaard Assistant editor: Sergi Forcada Freixas Senior news editor: Sara Wadeson
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  • During Donald Trump's first time in office, when he said he wanted to acquire Greenland, many dismissed this as hyperbole, a nonsense even.

  • But now, days away from taking office a second time, he seems on an expansionist role, taunting Canada it should become the USA's 51st state, that he wants America to reacquire the Panama Canal, and insisting that Greenland must become a US property for strategic security.

  • He said, people really don't even know.

  • If Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.

  • That's for the free world.

  • I'm talking about protecting the free world.

  • Greenland, the biggest island in the world, is an autonomous Danish territory rich in oil, gas reserves and other natural resources like zinc, gold and copper.

  • It sits between the US and Russia and is already home to a US military base.

  • Its geostrategic significance is very clear.

  • It's also hugely important in terms of climate conversations.

  • And its melting ice is also opening up new, profitable maritime trade routes, a development catching the attention of countries further afield, like China.

  • With all these competing interests, could we be looking at a brewing cold war in the Arctic, or, as some are calling it, an ice war?