India, Aug. 26 -- Right from his purchase of New Jersey casinos to his proposed acquisition of Greenland, Donald Trump's real estate deals have always been plagued by bad timing. The US could probably have bought Greenland from Denmark in 1917 (when it did buy the US Virgin Islands from the Danes), but it's a century too late now. Nevertheless, the US President's latest bad idea does give us an incentive to catch up with what's been happening in Greenland and it's quite interesting. Trump may not know this, since he rarely reads intelligence reports, but in November 2017 Greenland's premier, Kim Kielsen, led a government delegation to Beijing to seek Chinese investment.
Greenland, the world's biggest island, is not yet fully independent bu...