00:00Tom Hoyam is Denmark's former minister for Greenland.
00:04Denmark has had a very close contact for more than 75 years with China.
00:10And Denmark is a little country, yes, but we have the biggest container shift transport in the whole world,
00:17a mask, and they are always in China also.
00:20And we have a very big medical industry, so these issues will of course be discussed.
00:24But last year or two years ago, we started a green cooperation.
00:27And I think on the non-controversial side, this will be the biggest issue.
00:34And then I do not know how they will do it because it's very controversial, but Denmark is not a
00:39little country.
00:40Denmark is a global player because Greenland is a part of Denmark.
00:45And that means the whole Arctic area plays for the time being, unfortunately, a very, very big role.
00:51So I think that will also be taken into consideration.
00:54And I, in a way, I have been to Beijing, I know China.
00:59I think that Mr. Wang Yi is actually doing an analysis, and not in his mind, but he's doing an
01:07analysis which is correct.
01:09The Nordic countries play an important, increasingly role in the European Union.
01:15So I think it's quite clever to do that.
01:18If you take the Baltic countries together with the Nordic countries, then you have a move from the southern part
01:26of Europe to the northern part of Europe.
01:28And even when we have conflicts in the United States, that does not mean that the European Union is weaker.
01:35It means that we will be stronger and we are aware of our situation.
01:40So we also want to speak with China, of course.
01:43And can stronger China-Nordic relations help improve the broader China-EU relationship?
01:52I hope it can.
01:54Of course, we will always have the controversial issues.
01:57We have them.
01:57And trade is something practical, but you should not forget that the Nordic countries are some of the oldest and
02:07most solid democracies in the world.
02:10That means that our governments are in close contact with the population, and we feel what the population needs.
02:17And they need also to talk about controversial issues.
02:21But I think that at the end, this is a pragmatic analysis from China, which we will respond to in
02:29a very good way.
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