{"id":75937,"date":"2026-01-13T01:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/12\/greenland-cant-under-any-circumstances-accept-us-takeover-and-is-boosting-defences"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:03:30","slug":"greenland-cant-under-any-circumstances-accept-us-takeover-and-is-boosting-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75937","title":{"rendered":"Greenland says it cannot accept US takeover \u2018under any circumstances\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-governing island stresses it is member of Nato, which is looking at improving Arctic defences, through Denmark<\/p>\n<p>Greenland\u2019s government has said it \u201ccannot under any circumstances accept\u201d Donald Trump\u2019s desire to take control of Greenland, as Nato\u2019s secretary general, Mark Rutte, said the organisation was working on ways to bolster Arctic security.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of a critical week for the vast Arctic island, a largely self-governing part of Denmark, the US president restated his interest in the strategically located, mineral-rich territory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/09\/trump-greenland-threats-white-house\">saying the US would take it \u201cone way or the other\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/12\/greenland-cant-under-any-circumstances-accept-us-takeover-and-is-boosting-defences\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-governing island stresses it is member of Nato, which is looking at improving Arctic defences, through DenmarkGreenland\u2019s government has said it \u201ccannot under any circumstances accept\u201d Donald Trump\u2019s desire to take control of Greenland, as Nato\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[633,50,635,415,634,470,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic","category-china","category-denmark","category-donald-trump","category-greenland","category-nato","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75939,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75937\/revisions\/75939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}