
The arctic island of Greenland finds itself at the centre of an extraordinary geopolitical standoff. In a dramatic show of unity, Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has delivered what may well be the strongest rebuke yet to President Donald Trump's renewed ambitions to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Standing shoulder to shoulder with Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at a Copenhagen press conference, Nielsen left no room for ambiguity: if Greenlanders were forced to choose between their historic ties to Denmark and incorporation into the United States, the answer would be unequivocal.