00:00Aviak Brandt and Jens Hjeldsen raise Greenland's flag outside the U.S. consulate in Greenland's
00:06capital, Nuuk. Every day this week, their small group of protesters will set off before dawn
00:12to this same spot to say no to U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to acquire their homeland.
00:18I'm here to put a flag, our flag, in front of the consulate for United States
00:28to show Donald Trump and to show the world that the only flag that belongs in Greenland
00:37is our flag.
00:40This gathering, though small, reflects a broader groundswell of patriotism.
00:45Thousands of Greenlanders have already taken to the streets to say their island, a Danish
00:49territory, is not for sale.
00:53And some European countries have backed Denmark's sovereignty by sending in troops,
00:58part of a Danish-led NATO military exercise.
01:01Wow, that's a big crowd. That's a lot of people. I think it's like a record.
01:07But Trump isn't backing down. He says the U.S. needs Greenland for its security,
01:12and that he thinks Greenlanders will be, quote, thrilled for their island to come under U.S.
01:16control.
01:17His threat to put extra punitive tariffs on European countries opposed to his annexation
01:22plans is straining the NATO alliance, and now bringing counter-threats from Europe and
01:27a freezing of a U.S.-EU trade deal.
01:29But on Tuesday, before heading to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum in Davos,
01:34Trump told reporters he foresees a good outcome.
01:38We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland.
01:40I'm leaving tonight, as you know, for Davos. And we have a lot of meetings scheduled on
01:46Greenland. And I think things are going to work out pretty well, actually.
01:50Outside the White House, not everyone shares that optimism.
01:54All three big Wall Street indexes ended well down Tuesday.
01:57And some market watchers say Greenland, along with other moves by the Trump administration,
02:02is why.
02:02So the potential for real decline, and that's the big question right now. Are we at a moment
02:08that's a tipping point where the market says, enough, that's it. Greenland on the back of
02:16Maduro, immigration issues, Fed pressures, Gaza Peace Board, where he's the chairman. Is this
02:25the moment?
02:26And U.S. allies are firm about Greenland. Some allied leaders are simply holding their ground
02:31for now.
02:34I think what's important, we must defend our principles. We must defend our interests without
02:40being aggressive. We are not. While making sure we are respected, which is what we're
02:45doing, but without being intimidated either. And we will protect all our producers.
02:50But others are suggesting that the world order has now reached its breaking point, with whatever
02:55that might imply for future ties with powers like the U.S.
02:58Of course, nostalgia is part of our human story, but nostalgia will not bring back the old order.
03:06And playing for time and hoping for things to revert soon will not fix the structural
03:13dependencies we have.
03:15Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of
03:23crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.
03:30But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage.
03:37With tensions over Greenland testing old alliances, the talks that happen at this year's World Economic Forum
03:43could be consequential. And, as some leaders say, point to whether the world order really is
03:49rupturing. Andy Xue and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
03:54So, we're going to go ahead and see. The that happened happens since the beginning of avi
04:14uninterested dog may be drugs.
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