Putting Donald Trump's plans for Greenland and the Panama canal into context

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The tone of commentary has very much had a flavour of, "What on earth is Trump on about now?"
47% : Trump or his close associate, South African-born tech mogul Elon Musk.
40% : Read more: Trump's Greenland bid is really about control of the Arctic and the coming battle with China The other (rather smaller but no less strategically vital) bit of land that the US president-elect has his acquisitive eye on is the Panama Canal, which Trump says the US needs for economic security.
37% : Read more: With Trump in the White House, China and Latin America may try to forge an even deeper relationship Double act It's hard to say who has been getting more press in recent days:
32% : Trump asserts that the canal should never have been handed to Panama and claims that is is now "being operated by China".
30% : As Gift points out, it's just one aspect of an increasingly bitter debate over globalisation which may rupture the still close partnership between Trump and his closest "tech bro".
29% : First, as Wolff points out, Trump is not the first US president to float the idea of buying Greenland.
26% : While Trump and Musk appear as thick as thieves, there are those who think Washington's not big enough for the two towering personalities and that a major falling out is all but inevitable.
19% : Read more: Why Donald Trump is threatening to take control of the Panama Canal It's not as if many Latin American countries aren't already looking towards China, which over the past two decades has "dramatically expanded its role as a top trading partner for Latin America," writes Jose Caballero.

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