One sovereign nation purchasing land from another. This method of gaining territory had long been forgotten. But US President Donald Trump has revived it with Greenland. While everyone in Europe and elsewhere, perhaps by habit, has rejected the idea, I tend to ask myself: if they were capable, wouldn’t they want to do it too? Yet the shift in global power is now holding them back. History shows that the powerful have always traded lands. Now, amid a shifting global order, the concept is worth evaluating again. After all, which is better: acquiring land by war or by trade?

US president’s increasingly bellicose demands for control of the island may force the EU to draw a line in the snow

American President added that "China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it"

One sovereign nation purchasing land from another. This method of gaining territory had long been forgotten. But US President Donald Trump has revived it with Greenland. While…

The BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg analyses why pro-Russian government papers are full of praise for Donald Trump's desire to buy Greenland.

For years, Beijing has struggled to gain a foothold in Greenland, in part because of US and Danish unity. Trump’s fraying of that alliance could create the opening it needs

Trump has angered European leaders with his Greenland ambitions and tariffs-for-all-who-oppose approach.

Trump demands urgent talks on Greenland acquisition, asserting U.S. strength but ruling out military action against Denmark.

President Donald Trump insisted any bid to bring the “big beautiful piece of ice” under American control would stop short of military force.

The president said the U.S. should have just kept the Danish territory after World War II and that Denmark was being “ungrateful” by not handing it over now.