Greenland shift on US ties

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Trump’s aggressive approach to Greenland has shifted public sentiment, making Greenlanders more cautious about stronger US ties, senior researcher in Arctic Security Ulrik Pram Gad says. #Greenland #Trump

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00:00The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has praised the people of Greenland amid pressure

00:05from Trump. What has the response from Greenlanders actually been to this visit happening?

00:12The weird thing about the Trump strategy is that if you go back a year, the government of

00:19Greenland published a foreign policy strategy which was basically an invitation to the US

00:24to trade, investment, etc. But during the last three months of first an election campaign in

00:31Greenland, but also this more aggressive Trump campaign to get Greenland, Greenlanders have

00:38increasingly turned away from this hope that the US could bring investments and economic

00:47sustainability in a nice way, and more and more turned their back to what they see as an aggressive

00:54attempt to dominate them and take over their country, which of course they don't want.

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