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Agence France-Presse

Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede said on Wednesday his people did not want to join the United States, after President Donald Trump vowed to take over the Danish autonomous territory “one way or the other”.
“We don’t want to be Americans, or Danes either. We are Greenlanders. The Americans and their leader must understand that,” Egede wrote in a Facebook post six days ahead of Greenland’s legislative elections. “We are not for sale and can’t just be taken. Our future is decided by us in Greenland.”
Trump urged Greenland to choose to join the United States but vowed to take the Danish-ruled island “one way or the other” – a bid Denmark swiftly rejected on Wednesday.
“That won’t happen,” Danish Defence Minister Trouls Lund Poulsen told public broadcaster DR.
“The direction that Greenland wants to take will be decided by Greenlanders,” Lund Poulsen said.
In a partisan speech to Congress on Tuesday, Trump offered only passing lines on world affairs, focusing on his domestic goals like rounding up undocumented immigrants and slashing government spending.
But he underlined his expansionist vision of the United States, as he repeated his aspirations to take Greenland and claimed an initial victory on retaking control of the Panama Canal.


One week before general elections in Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark with an independence movement, Trump said he had a message for the “incredible people” of the sparsely populated but mineral-rich and strategically-placed island.
“We strongly support your right to determine your own future, and if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America,” Trump said.
But he made clear he would not give up if persuasion fails, saying: “One way or the other we’re going to get it.”
“We will keep you safe, we will make you rich, and together, we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before.”
China and Russia have been stepping up activity in the Arctic as climate change opens further sea routes.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called for cool heads to prevail.
“I think everyone, including us, should be cautious about having all kinds of opinions about the future” of Greenland, he told Danish television TV2.

US threats to take Greenland would once have been thinkable, with Denmark a treaty ally of the United States under Nato.
But Trump has made clear he has little patience for European allies, which he again denounced for not spending more on their militaries, with Trump instead seeing a return to an era of big powers taking what they want.
He has similarly vowed to take back the Panama Canal, the crucial link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that the United States handed to Panama at the end of 1999.
Trump declared triumph after Hong Kong firm CK Hutchison decided to sell its Panama ports to a US-led consortium.
Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had complained that rival China had gained too much influence over the canal and could shut it down in a conflict with the United States.
“To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we’ve already started doing it,” he said, as he mentioned the port deal.
“We didn’t give it to China. Gave it to Panama – and we’re taking it back,” he said.
Trump had earlier not ruled out military force to seize either the Panama Canal or Greenland.


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Greenland PM’s comment comes after Trump’s speech to the US Congress on Tuesday saying the US will get the territory ‘one way or another’


Greenland PM’s comment comes after Trump’s speech to the US Congress on Tuesday saying the US will get the territory ‘one way or another’.
