UK foreign secretary plays down idea of Trump taking control, in speech exposing differences with president-elect
The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, has said a US military seizure of Greenland is not going to happen, as he played down Donald Trump’s threats to seize the territory from Denmark.
The foreign secretary tried to square off the differences by arguing that much of what Trump said should not be taken literally. He said: “We know from Donald Trump’s first term that the intensity of his rhetoric and the unpredictability of what he says can be destabilising. Insisting European security was on a knife-edge, he also challenged the assumptions of some around Trump by saying UK intelligence had not “seen any sense at all that Putin is ready seriously to negotiate”.
Lammy also opened up a difference with the Trump administration by saying the UK would challenge Beijing “not to throw in their lot with Putin”. Many Trump Conservatives see China as the senior partner in an anti-western axis of evil with Russia, Iran and North Korea, and judge there is no possibility of a fracture in that alliance.
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