US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington respects the self-determination of Greenlanders but is not going to allow the resource-rich autonomous Danish region to become dependent on China.
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00:00No one's annexed anything. It's going to be up to Greenlanders.
00:02The Vice President made that clear. He's going to respect the self-determination of Greenlanders.
00:07So, at some point, the Greenlanders have made clear that they want to be independent of Denmark.
00:11Denmark should focus on the fact that the Greenlanders don't want to be a part of Denmark.
00:16That's what they should focus on. We didn't give them that idea.
00:19They've been talking about that for a long time.
00:21Whenever they make that decision, they'll make that decision.
00:23And then what we're not going to do is let China come in now and say,
00:27we're going to offer them a bunch of money and become dependent on China.