Reference News Network, January 20 report, according to AFP, January 19 report, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bensons warned European countries not to impose retaliatory tariffs over President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs to gain control of Greenland.
The report said that Bensons told reporters at the Swiss ski resort of Davos: "I think this would be very unwise."
Bensons said that Trump wants to control this self-governing Danish territory because he considers it a "strategic asset," and "we will not outsource the security of our hemisphere to anyone else."
When asked about the letter Trump sent to the Norwegian Prime Minister, Bensons said: "I know nothing about the president's letter to Norway." In the letter, Trump seemed to link his efforts to obtain Greenland with his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
However, Bensons said, "I think it's completely a rumor that the president would do this for the Nobel Prize."
Trump said over the weekend that all goods from the UK, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden to the United States would be subject to a 10% tariff starting February 1, until Denmark agrees to hand over Greenland.
This statement led American allies to angrily accuse the United States of "extortion," and German Deputy Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said on January 19 that Europe is preparing countermeasures. (Translated by Qiu Fang)
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