If boat trips from a few hundred years ago are not a claim of ownership, then why should this just apply for Denmark in Greenland, and not also for the European colonizers in North America?
The United States is expected to focus heavily on maintaining dominance in the Americas, while still regarding China as a major strategic competitor in the Asia-Pacific.
If this electoral gridlock [in domestic policy] does occur, it may well result in Trump — like several other reelected presidents of recent decades — increasingly turning to foreign policy.