Inside Trump’s Greenland Deal

President Trump’s administration is set to sign a security deal with Greenland this week that will allow more U.S. forces to be stationed on the Arctic island and drive American investment there. The agreement stops short of Trump’s earlier talk of annexing Greenland, but it represents a significant shift in the legal framework governing the U.S. military presence. Elsewhere, Paramount is in advanced settlement talks to close its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, the U.S. auto industry is urging Trump to keep Chinese carmakers out of the country, and the administration is preparing sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court.

The Greenland Security Deal: What Changed and What Didn’t

The deal, not yet official but with its contours known from statements by Trump and the Danish and Greenlandic governments, amends a 1951 treaty that was last updated in 2004. That earlier treaty gave the U.S. the right to station troops and build bases on Greenland as long as it consulted with Denmark and Greenland, but it was contingent on Greenland remaining part of Denmark and on NATO’s existence. The new agreement, according to WSJ correspondent Suna Erdem, will last “forever or in perpetuity,” surviving a potential Greenlandic independence from Denmark or a collapse of NATO. That is the main legal difference.