remove Venezuela\u2019s leader<\/a> from power.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cPeople are a bit worried, but immediately on social media \u2026 there were a lot of people posting our flag and standing firm,\u201d H\u00f8egh told CNN of the Greenlandic reaction to Trump\u2019s remarks.\n <\/p>\n
\n When the Trump administration turned its attention to Greenland \u2014 the vast autonomous Arctic territory ruled by Denmark \u2014 last year, it prompted \u201cone of the biggest demonstrations\u201d against the US approach, H\u00f8egh said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cNo individual can own land in Greenland, it is all a common ownership that you can lend as an individual,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat makes the view of our country as real estate ever so more provocative for us.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Similarly, Christian Keldsen, CEO of the Greenland Business Association, said the issue is \u201cin the background for us\u201d but it \u201cis irritating people because it\u2019s unnecessary.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Both H\u00f8egh and Keldsen underlined the close economic and strategic relationship which already exists between Greenland and the US, allowing American investment and military bases on the territory.\n <\/p>\n
\n The issue strikes right at the heart of Greenland\u2019s politics, which have long been shaped by Denmark\u2019s colonial legacy and questions about the territory\u2019s future independence.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s very much a booster for the independence talks,\u201d H\u00f8egh said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been on an island away from the world \u2026 and then all of a sudden this bomb drops and we have to find out what we want.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many Greenlanders, the Trump administration\u2019s repeated comments stating desire to take over the territory represent a \u201ctotal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-395930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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