Highlighting Greenland’s strategic importance is good; threatening to invade is not

Greenland, an overseas territory of the Kingdom of Denmark located in the Arctic, is back in the news after the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, who is also US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Greenland, paid a visit to the island this month. He received a cool reception from locals, with video clips on social media showing awkward exchanges with residents of the capital, Nuuk. He was appointed special envoy in December, in the aftermath of the White House suggesting that the US wanted to annex the territory.