FILE PHOTO: Danish patrol vessel P571 Ejnar Mikkelsen is seen in Sisimiut harbor, Greenland, in 2015. Kim Moller Petersen/Danish Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - On a windy August afternoon in 2017, Akitsinnguaq Ina Olsen was relaxing in the old harbour of Nuuk, Greenland's capital, when a Chinese icebreaker sailed unannounced into the Arctic island's territorial waters.
"I saw it by chance," Olsen, 50, told Reuters. "My first thought was: 'They're already here!' They're pretty cheeky, those Chinese."
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