00:00J.D. Vance's stop in Greenland was brief, but the backlash immediate and intense.
00:07Landing at a U.S. military base with no meeting scheduled with local officials,
00:12the vice president's visit struck many as tone deaf.
00:16A reminder, they say, of how decisions about Greenland are still too often made without Greenland.
00:23The vibe is different, if I may say so, but there has been so many twists.
00:29This is like a B movie, right? There's been so many twists here with world leaders jumping in,
00:35and either they're going to land in the major cities and they're not going to land after all.
00:42So there's been a bit of like surprises here and there.
00:46The Greenlanders are more in the sense of there is a lot of unity in the sense of basically the Greenlandic national feeling
00:55that the Greenlanders don't want to be Danes, don't want to be Americans.
00:58It's actually the five mantra of the parties.
01:01It's a message echoed not just by politicians, but by people on the street.
01:06Frustration over foreign interference is boiling over, and the symbolism of the visit,
01:11especially with no local government engagement, struck a nerve.
01:16I am a human. I am a human. Humans are not for sale.
01:21We are not for sale. You are not for sale in your country. You know that.
01:27That's why I am very angry about that.
01:31He's not welcome to Greenland and his administration because he wants to buy us.
01:36If he says, I don't want to buy you, then he's welcome.
01:42Govern our country by ourselves without interfering from Denmark or USA.
01:55I would like to say to Trump, don't even think about repeating it that you want Greenland.
02:08We don't want you here.
02:10Just hours before Vance touched down, Greenland's major political parties announced a historic coalition,
02:17uniting 75% of the electorate under one government.
02:22Analysts say the timing was no coincidence.
02:25So yeah, the sense of unity has been increasing in Greenland.
02:30Of course, it would be naive to not say it, but the United States also has some part of playing this role
02:37in forming the large coalition base that has been presented.
02:42Greenland's message to the world, they're open for business, but not for sale.
02:48As global powers eye the Arctic and climate and commerce collide,
02:53the people of Greenland are making one thing clear.
02:57This island is not up for grabs.
03:00Evangelos Tsipsas for CGTN.
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