00:01It's all smiles for boat captain Isaac Brandt, who's traveling through Greenland's nuke fjord.
00:074,000 kilometers away in Davos, Switzerland,
00:10U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he will not use force to annex Greenland,
00:15putting Brandt and many others slightly more at ease.
00:18For now at least, Greenland's position as a territory of NATO member Denmark is intact,
00:23and a crisis that threatened to fracture the alliance averted.
00:27It feels like a huge relief in many ways,
00:31because of course I and many other Greenlandic people have been super worried about what might happen,
00:40because there have been talks about using force.
00:45So it makes me super relieved, but again you never know with Donald Trump.
00:51And that uncertainty is being felt by many other Greenlanders too.
00:55I'm just thrilled that he has now announced that,
00:58but I'm also keeping my hopes down and still hoping for the best and preparing for the worst,
01:06because sometimes he can be saying a lot of stuff.
01:12Trump hasn't given up on taking Greenland.
01:14He says if the U.S. doesn't have it, adversaries like China or Russia will take it for themselves.
01:20Military takeover may be off the table, but some of what he said in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos raised alarm bells.
01:27Mr. President, when you said you would remember if Denmark did not agree to a deal on Greenland,
01:34what did you mean? What are the consequences?
01:36You'll have to figure that out for yourself. You're a smart guy.
01:39But the temperature is lower than it was earlier this week.
01:42NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has met with Trump to discuss Greenland.
01:46And this is how he sees things.
01:48Of course, I see that there are these tensions at the moment. There's no doubt.
01:52Again, I'm not going to comment on that.
01:54But I can assure you the only way to deal with that is, in the end, thoughtful diplomacy.
01:59After the meeting, Trump made a second about-face, cancelling punitive tariffs he'd planned on eight European countries opposed to his Greenland plans.
02:08Trump says there's now a framework for a deal on Greenland and its role in a missile defense shield. No details on that yet.
02:16Europe's line is firm. There can be dialogue, but Denmark's sovereignty over Greenland is not up for discussion.
02:23Denmark is keeping our agreements, and the agreement we made in Washington last week with his vice president and his foreign minister,
02:33that we will start high-level discussions to see if we are able to accommodate the American concerns,
02:38concerns that, as I also understand the president touched upon in his speech, in a way that respects our red lines.
02:45That is what we can negotiate about.
02:47Well, we are not starting any negotiations based on giving up some basic principles.
02:52We will never do that.
02:54And so, the next step in the Greenland crisis will come down to whether Trump will accept the red lines Denmark's put down.
03:00And if not, how he might respond.
03:03Luffy Lee and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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