{"id":17128,"date":"2026-02-18T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/17128\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:12:07","slug":"exclusive-trumps-claim-of-chinese-and-russian-ships-near-greenland-not-supported-by-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/17128\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Trump\u2019s claim of Chinese and Russian ships near Greenland \u2018not supported by facts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump said last month that the US \u201cneeded Greenland\u201d \u2013 a Danish territory \u2013 \u201cfrom the standpoint of national security\u201d because \u201c<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/greenland?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greenland<\/a> is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place\u201d and \u201cDenmark is not going to be able to do it\u201d.But Grimsson, who is chairman of the Arctic Circle \u2013 a non-government organisation network focused on international dialogue and cooperation about the future of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/arctic?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Arctic<\/a> \u2013 said there was no evidence for Trump\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He did, however, note that there was evidence of both Russian and Chinese ships and aircraft off the coast of Alaska and the airspace over it, meaning they were closer to the \u201cAmerican part of the Arctic, but not the Greenland part of the Arctic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771409527_286_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">04:56<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">What are Trump\u2019s motivations for wanting the US to take over Greenland?<\/p>\n<p>What are Trump\u2019s motivations for wanting the US to take over Greenland?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Grimsson said it went \u201cwithout saying\u201d that the Arctic had military importance, given it was the \u201cneighbourhood that links North America, China, and also Russia\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump said last month that the US \u201cneeded Greenland\u201d \u2013 a Danish territory \u2013 \u201cfrom the standpoint of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[6041,649,12361,174,108,26,184,71,57,2735,4090,74,12360,238,652],"class_list":["post-17128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-alaska","tag-arctic","tag-bering-sea","tag-china","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-greenland","tag-iceland","tag-munich-security-conference","tag-nato","tag-olafur-ragnar-grimsson","tag-russia","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}