Greenlanders respond to Trump: "It will never be for sale" – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.holly Williams has our Sunday journal a look at  a most unlikely geopolitical hot spot greenland   greenland is a quiet place remote behind its icy  fjords but now suddenly a hot property we have to   have Greenland it's not a question of do you think  we can do without it we can't president Trump   seems determined to take over and has refused to  rule out using force i think we're going to get it   one way or the other we're going to get it 2,000  miles north of Washington in Greenland's capital   nuke they're watching with anxiety and anger if we  were to be American it it would mean that we would   lose our language we would lose our culture Aaja  Chemnitz is one of Greenland's representatives in   Denmark's parliament for now at least Greenland's  a semiautonomous part of Denmark which colonized   the place hundreds of years ago greenlanders  have some experience with land grabs what do   you think President Trump wants with Greenland i  think he's interested in uh expanding the land uh   I think he's interested in uh the legacy also 79  mark but Greenlanders have their own legacy like   nearly 90% of them Chemnitz has Inuit heritage  greenland's indigenous people how long have your   ancestors lived on this land fever forever for  for thousands of years what does it mean to be   Inuit we're not necessarily focusing that much on  capitalism we're focusing very much on relations   so this is also an issue that I don't think uh the  Trump administration would uh respect trump says   America needs Greenland for security reasons and  it's true that the US is competing with Russia and   China in the Arctic for military and economic  dominance greenland has a tiny population of   around 56,000 but it's three times the size of  Texas with potential new shipping lanes and the   Russian Navy's northern fleet close by America's  only military base in Greenland is vital because   the shortest route for Russian ballistic missiles  to target the US would be across the Arctic 85% of   Greenlanders do not want to be part of the United  States according to a recent poll but the majority   do want full independence from Denmark i think if  Greenland was independent and left the security   umbrella of NATO as a consequence it would  undoubtedly look and feel more vulnerable but   being owned by America won't make Greenland safer  according to Professor Klaus Dodds an expert in   Arctic security it has a very long coastline  about 25,000 miles does it need more military   bases maybe some more US military bases what  you could arguably make the case for is better   maritime and aerial surveillance but again I  think what's creating insecurity in Greenland   right now frankly speaking is President Trump's  rhetoric about annexation no other country has   spoken about annexing Greenland president Trump  may also prize Greenland for another reason its   large and mainly untapped deposits of rare earth  minerals they're used in everything from cell   phones to electric car batteries and at the  moment China has a strangle hold on global   supply climate change is melting Greenland's ice  sheet which covers around 80% of this vast island   that's making Greenland's mineral reserves more  accessible and they're coveted by the US and other   nations president Trump wants immortality to make  America great again and that means making America   larger there is also very specific demand which  is getting access to rare earths because I think   he's been told quite reasonably that certain  countries particularly China have some kind of   material advantage this is not American diplomacy  as we have known it in recent decades is there a   cost to that when it comes to America's European  allies it becomes a very lonely place your allies   stop trusting you this is remarkable to say what  I'm about to say the United States stops being a   trusted and reliable partner in Greenland this new  Trump style diplomacy appears to have backfired   greenlanders told us they're open for business  with the US but it needs to come with respect   greenland is not for sale it never will be for  sale at any price it will never be for sale