Trump is reviving China’s Arctic ambitions

The Trump administration’s current Arctic policy is a high-stakes game of Russian roulette, risking the destruction of America’s regional alliances, and its own national security. From the ashes of that destruction, China will find an obvious path to revitalize its claim to prominence in the Arctic.

eft, and U.S. President Donald Trump. The 'hostile America' propaganda line is writing itself and Beijing will slip easily into the gaps opened not only between the U.S. and Denmark/Greenland but between the U.S. and all its partners in the Arctic—and beyond, writes Adam Lajeunesse. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Flickr

Opinion

BY ADAM LAJEUNESSE

January 15, 2026

Hot on the heels of its lightening raid into Venezuela to kidnap that country’s dictator, an emboldened United States President Donald Trump has renewed his demand for ownership of Greenland. Ostensibly needed for its strategic location and resources, Greenland is a now a ...

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