By Eric Vandenbroeck and co-workers
The Islands Caught in Global Crosshairs
Greenland, the world’s
largest island, has been in the news a lot lately amid U.S. President Donald
Trump’s repeated promises to wrest control of the territory from Denmark. But
it’s far from the only island that is a geopolitical flash point.
Greenland:
The Country With Nothing Left to Lose: In its quest for cash, the tiny
island nation of Nauru has tried it all. Its latest scheme may be its riskiest bet yet:
The Country With Nothing Left
to Lose:
In its quest for cash, the tiny island nation of Nauru
has tried it all.
A fisherman is silhouetted at sunset at
the northern end of the airport runway on the coast of Nauru:
The Island Stuck in Limbo Fifty years
after partition, a divided Cyprus somehow manages to get by:
Taiwan: People
walk past a Taiwanese flag in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Jan. 13, the day of
the island’s presidential election:
Okinawa Is in the Crosshairs of China’s Ambitions:
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