China is expanding its High North knowledge by paying to join Russian scientific expeditions, further fueling the West’s concerns about potential military use of research

The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population o

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar WarSubmarines, spies, and the struggle forpower in a melting Arctic320pp. Profile. £22. The Norwegian government once invited me on a guided tour of the country’s far north, inc

GREENLAND IS NOT SEEKING TO BE BOUGHT. NOR IS IT LOOKING TO BE RESCUED. IT IS SEEKING DIGNITY, COOPERATION AND RESPECT.

KENNETH R. ROSEN

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD HIS SIGHTS set on Greenland for years. He first offered to buy the island—an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark—in 2019 during his first term, in what he