US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not deploy US military might to acquire Greenland as tensions mounted over his repeated threats to acquire the world’s largest island, by force if necessary.
His much-anticipated appearance at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in the Swiss town of Davos turned the normally cosy gathering of billionaires and elite pundits into one of the world’s hottest geopolitical ticket.
But Trump left little doubt he still had his eye on “our big...
Donald Trump’s Davos speech: Greenland plan, Xi ‘friendship’, China’s ‘smart’ energy sales
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