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Welcome back to What’s Happening in China, your weekly update on the latest news and developments from the country.

Wishing you a healthy and peaceful Year of the Snake, one with less noise and more substance. For this first issue of the new year, I thought it’d be refreshing to take a break from all the buzz around DeepSeek and talk about something else.

A self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland has been back in the spotlight since President Trump restated his desire to purchase it. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he said on Truth Social back in December. This comes over five years since he first floated the idea.

“I think the people [of Greenland] want to be with us,” Trump recently claimed. However, a new poll shows 85 percent of Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States.

Recently confirmed Secretary of Sta…