Ken Martin
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But it was the U.S.
who always escaped from diplomacy, who cut the diplomacy and opted for war.
My message is
Between war and diplomacy, diplomacy is a better way, although we don't have any positive experience from the United States.
But still, diplomacy is much better than war.
We haven't seen a Chinese warship in Greenland for a decade or so.
There's absolutely no Chinese investments in Greenland.
When I served as prime minister, I served prime minister twice.
We avoided any kind of Chinese investments in infrastructure.
You know, 10 years ago, the Roller Belt Initiative, what you have seen in Africa.
We avoided all that.
We now build new international airports in Greenland.
They are funded by Danish money.
We had an abandoned American military installation years ago.
There was a global tender.
I personally intervened in this in order to avoid, you know, any Chinese footprint.
So there's absolutely no Chinese footprint in Greenland.
We therefore still have a fundamental disagreement, but we also agree to disagree.
And therefore we will, however, continue to talk.
We have decided to form a high level working group to explore if we can find a common way forward.