I was interested in what it means to be “trump-linked” in this case. So I looked at the danish media and basically: Greenlandish company “White Flame Energy A/S” have official licenses and permissions to look for oil. In 2024, White Flame Energy were bought by british 80 Mile PLC, and thereby is in control of the licenses (although from greenland media sermitsiaq.ag they should have has oil research licenses since 2015). The american company “Greenland Energy Company” has entered partnership with 80 Mile, and they are the investors that will fund the project and run the drilling operations. The trump link seems to be Greenland Energy’s chairperson “Larry Swets”, who appears in Trumps circle (According to The Guardian).

So it seems like a capitalistic invasion; pay the bill and get to run the operations, while the brits do PR control with the locals.

Oh! thanks a lot for pointing out my error. Well then it is only the by far largest party not pushing against chat control. Slightly less disappointing…

I checked the danish votes here and it seems like only social demokratiet (social democrats) voted against this bill. All other stronger left leaning parties voted for it as well as all the centrist and right leaning parties. Truly disappointing.

Haha those are my cringe tourist hands, with my body cut out for privacy

I actually went to see this went I passed by Suzhou on my China trip a few years back! It is leaning quite a bit, but taking a good picture of it was difficult, as you can only really see it from one angle.