Denmark said fundamental disagreement over Greenland remains with Trump
發佈日期: 2026-01-15 20:40
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Denmark said that a fundamental disagreement over Greenland remains with US President Donald Trump after a meeting with the US Vice President and Secretary of State in Washington.
The two sides did agree to create a working group to discuss ways to work through differences.
An idyllic island, for decades ignored, but now at the centre of a diplomatic tussle that threatens to tear apart long-standing Western alliances.
If US President Donald Trump is to be believed, Chinese and Russian battleships lurk beyond this picture-postcard horizon.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, along with Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt, held talks with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington. Rasmussen said that a fundamental disagreement exists between the two sides, and later speaking to Fox News, totally dismissed the Chinese factor.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said: "There's absolutely no Chinese investments in Greenland. When I served as prime minister twice, we avoided any kind of Chinese investments in infrastructure. You know, 10 years ago, the Belt and Road Initiative, what you have seen in Africa, we avoided all that."
The US has had a base in Greenland for more than 70 years and Rasmussen insists that any security force could be a NATO combined force.
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which is happy to beef up its military in the island.
Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said they have agreed to increase their military presence in the region in close cooperation with NATO.
Rasmussen also met with some US Senators,two of whom appear to side with the Danes.
Angus King, US Independent Senator for Maine, said: "And one of the things we learned in the meeting is that they are very, the Danes and the Greenlanders are very open to additional national security assets in Greenland in order to meet whatever risks there are. So the idea that we have to own the country in order to protect our national security is just nonsense."
Lisa Murkowski, US Republican Senator for Alaska said: "This is legislation that effectively acknowledges and underscores the role that we play as a NATO nation, working with our NATO allies, that we do not move against a NATO ally, and that no funds shall be expended to do so."
Even so, Trump has his sights set on establishing an Arctic stronghold. "I'm not going to give up options, but it's very important. And the problem is, it's not a thing that Denmark can do about it, if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland" Trump said.
