Posted on 08/20/2019 5:57:10 PM PDT by Helicondelta
China is flexing its muscles. As the second richest economy in the world, its businessmen and politicians are involved just about everywhere in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Now, though, China is taking a big interest in a very different part of the world: the Arctic.
It has started calling itself a "near-Arctic" power, even though Beijing is almost 3,000km (1,800 miles) from the Arctic Circle. It has bought or commissioned several ice-breakers - including nuclear-powered ones - to carve out new routes for its goods through the Arctic ice.
And it is eyeing Greenland as a particularly useful way-station on its polar silk road.
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Leave it to the Leftists to _ up any new idea.
So once again, Trump is out front of the pack, decisively presenting the path forward.
Check!
“just about everywhere in Asia, Africa and Latin America”
Uh, California too
Funny how there ain’t no Caucasians buyin’ up land on the Chinese coast. Tons of ‘em here doing just that...
Ain’t yo land no mo’, Gringo. Your leaders done skrewed ya...
Thanks Nixon. Our enemies just get stronger.
China has a very big interest in Greenland. Greenland has vast rare earth mineral deposits and a successful development of that resource will cut deeply into China’s present day near monopoly. FT has an interesting article, my money is on the US and Denmark doing a deal.
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Maybe the Danes should sell it to us now. They’ll get a lot better deal from us than they will from the Chinese.
We have too fully counter the Chicoms, in regards too the rare mineral Earth claims.
Stop blaming leftists when even our so called allies have also given China way too much leverage including Hungary and Israel.
There is a 22 mile wide impact crater on the coastline not far from Thule. Water borne debris washed from under the half-mile thick ice sheet has been assayed, found to contain platinum group metals seasoned with gold, all attributed to an iron-nickel asteroid. It’s likely not the only one per NASA’s research.
This is why the idea of buying it has resurfaced.
It is Leftists no matter where they are from.
We had people in the Republican party who bought in.
They sure weren’t Conservatives.
They were Leftists.
Anyone that props up a Communist world domination wanna be, is a Leftist enabling fool. That makes them a Leftist too.
I understand. Yes too many people fall under the umbrella unfortunately.
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Don’t need to pay the Danes a dime. The Greenlanders can via Danish law vote for independence via referendum and in the same referendum question vote to become a US territory.
Trump was nice and said “interested Denmark?” They said no.
Here comes the rub. 64% of GLers want to be independent. Their per capita GDP is around $40K. The Danes kick in $12500 of that figure. The want to be independent swings to 78% against if it means losing that $12500. There are about 55000 of them.
We could offer every GLder $5 million and it is only $275 billion. That would be per person so papa Inuit would get 5. Mama would get 5. Even babies would get 5.
It is so a no brainer deal even I could pull it off.
Want to bet against there being a rapid order of green MGGA hats before and a hell of a party after the referendum? A few would would stay... but that is $20 million for a family of 4. That is FU money.
Oh and if the CCP outbids us... point at Hong Kong. A deal is never a deal with the Chinese. Then point out we occupied Greenland while the Nazis over ran Denmark and gave it back after we wiped the Nazis out. Our deals are gold.
It has bought or commissioned several ice-breakers - including nuclear-powered ones - to carve out new routes for its goods through the Arctic ice.
There are 3 more modern heavy breakers (conventionally powered) planned of Finnish design but will not be operational until after 2028. The US has nothing equal to either Russian or Chinese heavy ice breakers and there are no plans for such ships.
Greenland is a dagger pointed at the heart of North America.
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