{"id":46653,"date":"2025-01-29T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=46653"},"modified":"2025-01-29T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:12:07","slug":"trump-greenland-and-the-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2025\/01\/29\/46653\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Greenland and the Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada\u2026 Donald Trump\u2019s growing \u201cshopping list\u201d expresses the military and economic interests of US imperialism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Per-Ake Westerlund, from Offensiv (paper of ISA in Sweden)<\/p>\n<p>(This article was first published on 15 January 2025)<\/p>\n<p>Washington and Wall Street are prepared to run over democratic rights and entire populations. As Trump\u2019s inauguration approaches, governments around the world are holding their breaths, desperately preparing for what might occur. Rather than fighting his plans, NATO and other Western governments are generally doing their best to adapt to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks before his inauguration, Trump announced that he would not rule out using military force to gain control of Greenland and the Panama canal. He also threatened Denmark with high tariffs. Against Canada, he said financial means, as opposed to military force, would be enough against what he derisively referred to as the US\u2019s \u201c51st state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day as the Greenland announcement, his son, Donald Trump Jr., made a four hour PR visit to the island, where he invited supporters to a dinner at a luxury restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>In Greenland, there has long been a strong pressure for independence from the Danish kingdom, which 300 years ago colonized the island, among its small population. Discrimination and unequal conditions are well documented and only a few years ago it was revealed that women in Greenland were subjected to forced sterilization. In his speech on New Year\u2019s Eve, the island\u2019s Prime Minister M\u00fate Egede emphasized the demand for self-government.<\/p>\n<p>The focus for Trump\u2019s interest in both Greenland and Panama is the conflict with Chinese imperialism. The melting of Arctic ice-caps by capitalism\u2019s accelerated climate and ecological destruction is sharpening a new imperialist scramble for control over sea corridors and resources. Beijing\u2019s increased interest in the Arctic, often in collaboration with Putin\u2019s Russia which has the biggest land border with the region, as well as the fact that Chinese companies operate ports in the Panama Canal, are used as arguments that securing control over these territories is about US \u201cnational security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wants to achieve military and economic control. Direct military action is a threat used to achieve these goals. Another possibility to secure further control would be for the Trump administration to ally itself with a push for Greenland independence, supporting a nominally independent government in exchange for military and resource dominance. In response to Trump\u2019s threats, the Danish government has struck an extremely conciliatory tone with the Danish Prime Minister rushing to declare his government\u2019s commitment to \u201cto ensure legitimate American interests\u201d in the Arctic. EU leaders have also already signaled that they are prepared to strengthen the US role in Greenland. This primarily applies militarily, both in airspace and sea transport.<\/p>\n<p>The US already has a military base, Pituffik Space Force Base, in Greenland. Greenland also has large natural resources, oil and especially rare earth metals, where global production is currently dominated by China. Shares in mining companies rose sharply after Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal commentators, such as Peter Wolodarski in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, emphasize that the Nordic countries and the EU must now stand together against Trump\u2019s speech. But the EU, NATO or Denmark should not govern Greenland. That is a task for the Greenlanders, with the support of labor and anti-war movements in the Nordic countries, Europe and North America. Both sides in the imperialist bloc conflict between US imperialism and Chinese imperialism are brutal superpowers that act for their own power and profits.<\/p>\n<p>Whether natural resources are to be exploited should be decided democratically and any profits should accrue to the people. In Denmark, the left-wing party Enhedslisten quite rightly supports the demand for independence for Greenland, to be decided and shaped by the Greenlanders.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the left and the labor movement globally must act against Trump\u2019s traditional US imperialist policy, to see Latin America, and now also Canada, as \u201cthe US\u2019s backyard\u201d. This is about fighting against all imperialism, for a strong, independent, fighting international labor movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada\u2026 Donald Trump\u2019s growing \u201cshopping list\u201d expresses the military and economic interests of US imperialism. Per-Ake Westerlund, from Offensiv (paper of ISA in Sweden) (This article was first published on 15 January 2025) Washington and Wall Street are prepared to run over democratic rights and entire populations. 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