Gracelyn Baskaran
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first heard Jan 2026
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Like, Greenland needs more economic activity as well.
Mm-hmm.
You know, but what they really want to do is they want to do it in a way that's collaborative.
And what we saw in December 2025 was a very strategic project backed by the European Union for graphite, another commodity that China has a pretty big stranglehold on, actually move ahead and get a permit for exploration in Greenland.
So it's really, you know, Greenland has this potential as a place that wants, you know, they've obviously been a very key strategic ally to the U.S.
We have military bases in Greenland.
It's historically been a fairly positive relationship, a country that wants to develop its mining sector, that wants to work with Europe, that has been open about wanting to work with the U.S.
You know, I think we can do it in a way that's positive and collaborative without necessarily needing to play Settlers of Catan with Greenland.
Look, I mean, I think we have to think about this as a near, medium, and long term, right?
In the near term, I don't think that there's an illusion that Greenland is not going to give us minerals in the next six months that are suddenly going to reduce our reliance on China.
Because a lot of these projects have a long project development timeline, as I said to you earlier.
I mean, that could span from a decade to two to three decades.
So it's not a near-term mineral solution.
What it is, though, in a time when, number one, geopolitical tension in the Indo-Pacific is increasing quite rapidly.
We saw just this week that China cut Japan off of access to dual-use materials because of some of the comments it made to Taiwan.
Second, we have seen China making an increasing play on...
And Greenland, I mean, in the last seven years, you've seen this grow.
I mean, at one point, Denmark actually had to intervene so that China didn't come in and, you know, kind of take the build the airports of Greenland and have that level of ownership on national security grounds.
So, you know, it is, I think, in the near term, we have so much tension in the world and particularly in the Indo-Pacific that that's the near term goal.
The longer term goal is we see an area with a lot of resource potential.
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