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Samsters has any concern if Beekok Take Over?

Singapore Says US Move on Venezuela Concerns Small States​

Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military complex, after a series of explosions in Caracas on Jan. 3.
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By Ramsey Al-Rikabi
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM GMT+8
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Singapore Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the US use of military intervention in Venezuela is of great concern, especially for smaller countries.

Venezuela has a very difficult internal situation and has destabilized the region but that doesn’t justify unilateral action without any proper authorization from another country, Lee said Thursday at the ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute’s regional outlook forum.

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[Leongsam]

Samsters has any concern if Beekok Take Over?

Singapore Says US Move on Venezuela Concerns Small States​

Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military complex, after a series of explosions in Caracas on Jan. 3.
Photographer: AFP/Getty Images
By Ramsey Al-Rikabi
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM GMT+8
Updated on
January 8, 2026 at 11:06 AM GMT+8
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Singapore Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the US use of military intervention in Venezuela is of great concern, especially for smaller countries.

Venezuela has a very difficult internal situation and has destabilized the region but that doesn’t justify unilateral action without any proper authorization from another country, Lee said Thursday at the ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute’s regional outlook forum.

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The US did nothing more than arrest an indicted individual wanted for drug trafficking and responsible for millions of deaths. Singapore has done the same in many instances.

They did not invade Venezuela. The forces were in an out in less than an hour.

LHL is talking through his ass.

 

[myfoot123]

LHL is talking through his ass.

That is the price for kissing someone ass.

 

[k1976]

Trump says Greenland is ‘surrounded’ by Chinese ships. What’s the real story?​

China has engaged with Greenland in areas ranging from oil and minerals to tourism. But its footprint is far smaller than Trump claims

Xiaofei Xu in Paris
Published: 10:30pm, 7 Jan 2026Updated: 11:12pm, 7 Jan 2026

Just 24 hours after abducting the former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife from Caracas, US President Donald Trump had already named his next potential target for military action: Greenland.

Trump has been discussing “a range of options”– including the use of armed force – to acquire the self-governed Danish territory, the White House said on Tuesday.

What would a US takeover of Greenland mean for China, if it were to really happen? The Post breaks down trade relations between the island and China – and how they have evolved over the past decade.

Is Greenland surrounded by Chinese ships?​

In an interview with the Atlantic on Sunday, Trump described Greenland as being “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships”.

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But that is not true.

Greenland occupies a strategic location in China’s “polar silk road” – one of three main trade corridors envisioned in the Belt and Road Initiative – which was outlined by Beijing in 2017.


However, Beijing has so far mostly made progress on the Russian and European part of the strategy. The shipping routes Chinese companies have launched to connect China and Europe via the Arctic do not reach Greenland, which geographically belongs to North America.


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Chinese activities across the Arctic region remain limited and have faced strong pushback from European countries in the area, researchers from the Rand Corporation noted in early 2025.

Is China pursuing resources deals in Greenland?​

While Chinese companies have explored potential deals in the past, there is currently little interest from China in acquiring mining rights on Greenland, the island’s minister for business and mineral resources, Naaja Nathanielsen, told the Financial Times in May.

There are only two Chinese mining companies in Greenland, and they are minority shareholders in inactive projects, according to Nathanielsen, who added that Chinese investors might be holding back to avoid potential controversy.


But she stressed the island was keen to exploit its natural resources – and that it was open to turning to China if European and American companies failed to invest.

What happened to previous Chinese projects on the island?​

Chinese firms may be adopting a cautious stance due to the way their previous ambitions on the island fell apart.

Energy Transition Minerals (ETM) – a mining company part-owned by the Chinese firm Shenghe Resources – claims that Greenland granted it an exploitation licence for the Kvanefjeld project in 2020, after initial explorations found the site held among the world’s largest deposits of rare earth elements.


But the arrival of a new Greenlandic government in 2021 led to the project being banned on environmental grounds – a decision that ETM said caused the company US$7.5 billion in damages, according to court filings.

ETM filed a lawsuit against the Danish and Greenlandic governments in an effort to overturn the decision, but an arbitration court threw out the case in October. Nathanielsen praised the court’s decision, while admitting the legal proceedings still had “a long way to go”.

Other Chinese companies have also faced setbacks. Two of China’s state-owned oil giants – China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) – previously expressed interest in exploring for oil in Greenland, but the efforts went nowhere as the government stopped issuing new exploration licences in 2021, citing environmental concerns.


Another state-owned enterprise, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), made headlines in 2018 when it was shortlisted for a contract to expand the airport in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk.

But the news raised concerns in Denmark, and CCCC withdrew its bid in 2019 without providing any further details.

What does Greenland need from China?​

Trade between Beijing and Nuuk revolves around two things: tourism and fish.


China is the biggest export market for Polar Seafood Greenland, the island’s biggest private fishing company, the firm’s CEO, Bent Salling, told Chinese state media outlet Reference News in April.

Greenland’s new government, which took office in April, intends to push for a free-trade agreement with China, the island’s foreign minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, told Xinhua in March before assuming her position.

Nathanielsen has also spoken of the importance of trade with China. After her comments about Greenland potentially being open to minerals deals with Beijing sparked backlash in Denmark, she told a local media outlet: “We will have to insist that China is a market for our fish.”


Meanwhile, Greenland is keen to attract more Chinese tourists. The island welcomed a record 3,500 visitors from China in 2024 and was on track to receive 5,000 in 2025, the former head of Greenland’s representation in Beijing, Jacob Isbosethsen, said in a farewell message in July. He now leads the island’s representation in Washington.



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Why Trump wants Greenland — and what makes it so important for national security​

PUBLISHED WED, JAN 7 20262:26 AM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 7 202610:02 AM EST

Sam Meredith@IN/SAMUELMEREDITH@SMEREDITH19
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• Greenland, a vast and sparsely populated self-governing Danish territory, has been thrust into the geopolitical spotlight once again.
• “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One on Sunday.
• The president, who has long advocated for control over Greenland, could annex the territory by using military force, according to the White House.

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Three key reasons why President Trump wants Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump is fixated on taking control of Greenland, a vast, sparsely populated and mineral-rich island situated between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean.

“It’s so strategic,” Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One on Sunday. “Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security.”


His comments, which came hot on the heels of an audacious military operation in Venezuela, sounded the alarm across Europe, with Denmark warning that an American takeover of Greenland would mark the end of the NATO military alliance.

The U.S. president, however, is yet to waver. Indeed, the White House ramped up trans-Atlantic tensions even further on Tuesday, saying that Trump and his team are considering “a range of options” to make the self-governing Danish territory a part of the United States — including “utilizing the U.S. Military.”

Positioned between the U.S. and Russia, Greenland has long been viewed as an area of high strategic importance, particularly when it comes to Arctic security.

The territory of nearly 57,000 people is in close proximity to emerging Arctic shipping routes, with the rapid melting of ice creating opportunities to substantially reduce Asia-Europe travel time when compared with the Suez Canal.

Greenland also sits astride the so-called GIUK Gap, a naval choke point between Greenland, Iceland and the U.K. that links the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean.

 

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Shipping routes​

To be sure, the U.S. already has a presence in Greenland. The Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, is located in the northwest of Greenland, just across the Baffin Bay from Nunavut, Canada.

It is estimated that around 150 U.S. service members are permanently stationed there, down from around 6,000 during the Cold War era.

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“For good reasons, the U.S. has an early warning air base in northwestern Greenland because the shortest route for a Russian ballistic missile to reach the continental United States is via Greenland and the North Pole,” said Otto Svendsen, associate fellow with the Europe, Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, a Washington-based think tank.

The base, which also has an active airfield and is home to the world’s northernmost deep-water port, has traditionally been pivotal to the monitoring of Russian submarines traversing the GIUK Gap, Svendsen said.

“A more recent and emerging threat or factor is the fact that Greenland straddles two potential shipping routes through the Arctic, the Northwest Passage and the Transpolar Sea Route,” Svendsen told CNBC by telephone.

“And as climate change continues to render those routes more viable, there are commercial interests there as well that add to the national security value of the island,” he added.

A fishing boat navigates around icebergs that broke off from the Jakobshavn Glacier and are floating in Disko Bay on March 10, 2025, in Ilulissat, Greenland.
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Opinion polls have previously shown that Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose U.S. control, while a strong majority support independence from Denmark.
Analysts say Greenland could prove useful to the U.S. as a staging ground for a greater defensive presence and as a location for U.S. missile interceptors — particularly in the context of one of the Trump administration’s key policies: a “Golden Dome” missile defense system.

The multibillion-dollar initiative, rolled out in May last year and often compared to Israel’s “Iron Dome” system, is a visionary plan designed to shield the U.S. from all missile attacks.

 

[myfoot123]

Greenland suddently became valuable because the surrounding ice are melting.

 

[k1976]

Trump sets his sights on Greenland — but its economy faces ‘major challenges’​

PUBLISHED TUE, JAN 6 20269:57 AM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 7 20262:58 AM EST
Chloe Taylor@CHLOETAYLOR141
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KEY POINTS

• U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated that the United States needs to take over Greenland, a Danish territory.
• The president’s comments have sparked backlash from European leaders.
• In a report Tuesday, Denmark’s central bank warned that the Greenlandic economy is continuing to slow and faces “major challenges.”

A view of houses in the old town of Nuuk, Greenland, March 27, 2025.
Leonhard Foeger | Reuters
Donald Trump is interested in annexing Greenland, an Arctic island offering a wealth ofuntapped mineral resources.

But as the U.S. president dialed up the rhetoric about America annexing the self-governing Danish territory, sparking a backlash from international leaders, a report detailed the challenges facing its economy.


Published Tuesday, a report by Søren Bjerregaard, head of securities and balance of payments at Danmarks Nationalbank, warned that there were “major challenges ahead” for Greenland’s economy.

The Arctic island’s economy — largely driven by the fishing industry — expanded by 0.8% in 2025 and is expected to grow a further 0.8% this year, down from 2% in 2022. According to the Danish central bank, the slowdown is likely to continue.

“The Greenlandic economy is slowing down, with modest growth and serious challenges for public finances,” Bjerregaard wrote.

“This is partly because the expansion of infrastructure in the form of airports is nearing completion, and planned major projects in energy supply and other areas have not yet begun.”

 

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wherever ccp stirs shit trump will be there with a big stick.