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What if Japan & South Korea sided with China on US tariffs?

Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

If China, Japan, and South Korea formed a united front, what kind of leverage would they have in negotiating against US tariffs?

Oh, if that were to happen, they'd have incredible leverage because China's the second-largest economy in the world, Japan's the third. This would be a really, really big deal. Except for the fact that it's not going to happen. Their trade ministers did just meet, and they've had some interesting coordinated statements. They do a lot of trade together, and they want to continue that. But the fact that the security of South Korea and Japan is overwhelmingly oriented towards the US, and they would not want to undermine that, means that they will certainly not see China as a confederate to coordinate with against the United States, not least on trade. The American response would be belligerent. So no, that's not going to happen.

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Protesters take part in a demonstration march ending in front of the US consulate, under the slogan, “Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people,” in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 15, 2025.

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Vances pare back Greenland trip amid threat of protests

US Second Lady Usha Vance canceled plans to attend Greenland’s biggest dog-sledding race and visit historical sites after officials in Nuuk and Copenhagen balked at an uninvited trip from an official delegation as President Donald Trump pressures Denmark to cede its autonomous Arctic territory to Washington.

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Sled dogs rest near Qeqertarsuaq, on Disko Island, Greenland's largest island, last summer.

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Greenlanders see red over White House visits

The Americans are coming, and Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute B. Egede is not happy about it. Egede lashed out at the Trump administration for planning visits to the island nation late this week by Second Lady Usha Vance and her son to see a dogsled race, and by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to tour a US military base. Egede called the moves “highly aggressive.”
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A man walks as a Danish flag flutters next to Hans Egede Statue ahead of a March 11 general election in Nuuk, Greenland, March 9, 2025.

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Snubbing Trump, Greenland votes to stick closer to Denmark – for now

Greenland’s center-right parties trounced the ruling left-wing coalition in Tuesday’s election. In a blow to US President Donald Trump’s plans to annex the Arctic territory, a once-marginal party that favors a slow separation from Denmark is set to lead the next government.

The pro-business Demokraatit party – whose platform calls for maximizing “personal freedom” and ensuring that the public sectors “never stand in the way of” private enterprise – gained seven seats in Greenland’s Inatsisartut, seizing roughly one-third of the 31-seat parliament.

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The statue of the missionary Hans Egede towers over the city center of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.

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Fire and ice: Denmark and Greenland respond to Trump

Donald Trump’s pledge to take over Greenland “one way or another” in his speech to Congress Tuesday night, prompted starkly different responses from the island itself and from Denmark, which currently controls it.

“Greenland is ours,” Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egedewrote in a combative Facebook post on Wednesday. “Americans and their leader must understand that. We do not want to be Americans, nor Danes… Our future is determined by us in Greenland.”

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attends a brief press conference with the German Chancellor in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2025.

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A Greenland temperature check (still cold, but the tea is hot)

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksenadmitted on Tuesday that she was “happy” with a new poll revealing that 85% of Greenlanders opposed becoming part of the United States. Despite President Donald Trump’s courting, only 8% say they would accept an American passport over a Danish one if forced to choose, according to a survey for theSermisiaq andBerlingske newspapers. The results follow Frederiksen’s visits to Berlin, Paris, and Brussels to strengthen European solidarity against Trump’s threats. According to local media, the French even considered sending troops to the island, but the offer wasturned down.
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French President Emmanuel Macron receives Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on Jan. 28, 2025.

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France weighs EU troop deployment to Greenland

Geopolitics are heating up in the Arctic. Inan interview Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Paris had started talking with Copenhagen about sending troops to Greenland, and that the Danes are “open to considering it if our security interests are at stake.” When asked whether the US would invade Greenland, Barrot said, “That won’t happen … No one has any interest in entering into conflict with the European Union.” However, he added that “if Denmark requests the solidarity of the European Union member states, France will be ready to respond.”

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At Davos, all eyes are on Trump

Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, shares his perspective on European politics from Davos, Switzerland.

What’s been going on here?

It’s been Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. It’s been very much dominated by assessments, curiosity, concern about the transition in the US. A lot of businessmen are fairly, sort of, upbeat. They think there’s sort of a deregulation and lower taxes, that’s good. Economists are more worried. Debts and deficits, that’s not good. And those dealing with geopolitics, like myself, are deeply concerned.

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