Ken Martin

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.

The group, in our view, should focus on how to address the American security concerns while at the same time respecting the red lines of the kingdom of Denmark.

And the problem is there's not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland.

But there's everything we can do.

You found that out last week with Venezuela.