After months of threatening tariffs and possible military action to acquire Greenland, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland. Andrew Chang explains how this deal updates the long-standing 1951 defence agreement but falls short of an outright U.S. takeover, and why experts question if the diplomatic fallout was worth the result.
CORRECTION: At 08:31, there is a photo of an airplane at Nuuk airport. It should show an image of a Naval port in Greenland.
Intro - 00:00
What the deal isn’t - 00:48
What the deal is - 03:52
A ‘forever’ deal? - 06:23
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