内容摘要：Pope Francis's last visit to the country in 2015 drew a crowd of

Pope Francis's last visit to the country in 2015 drew a crowd of

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But regardless of who sits in the White House, the question is whether Greenlanders would see any benefit in raising cooperation levels with the United States - and if so, to what extent?"Greenland's national project is all about spreading out the island's dependence in order to have as many ties as possible with the outside world," says Ulrik Pram Gad, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and an expert on the Arctic region.

It is in this context that some Greenlanders are warming to the model of a "free association" with either Denmark or the United States – replicating a similar loose arrangement between the United States and certain islands in the Pacific."The problem is that Greenland feels swallowed up by Denmark," says Mr Pram Gad. "It aims to feel less constrained and less dependent on just one country. Free association is not so much about 'association' and more about 'free'. It's about having one's own sovereignty."