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Greenland’s strategic position in seven maps: Why Trump wants the island
The world’s largest island sits in the Arctic Circle and is strategically and economically valuable.
US President Donald Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where the issue of Greenland will be front and centre.
Trump’s long-running fixation on acquiring Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark, has escalated into a transatlantic imbroglio, with threats of sweeping new tariffs and even taking Greenland by military force rattling stock markets.
Speaking at a White House media briefing on Tuesday to mark one year since his second-term inauguration, he said Greenland was “imperative for national and world security”.
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen in Greenland for 'show of support'
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen is visiting Greenland's capital Nuuk for talks with the territory's leader, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, after a rollercoaster week that saw US President Donald Trump roll back his threats to forcibly take over the Arctic island and agree to further negotiations.
Tensions had risen precariously over the past couple of weeks, until a stunning turnaround on Wednesday, when Trump suddenly ruled out military action, and withdrew his threats to slap tariffs on several European allies.
Trump posted on social media that a "framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland" had been reached, following his meeting with Nato chief Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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NATO chief’s Greenland deal with Trump blindsides European allies
European diplomats with knowledge of the framework tell MS NOW that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte “negotiated this on his own” and that “the Danes are still stressed.”
DAVOS, Switzerland — A deal on Greenland that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte negotiated with President Donald Trump blindsided European officials who had striven to show unity in the face of escalating threats from the U.S., a European diplomat with knowledge of ongoing discussions told MS NOW.
“Rutte negotiated this on his own,” the diplomat told MS NOW on Friday, referring to the agreement discussed by the NATO secretary general and President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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