The Greenland alarm is sounding. Frederiksen has tried hard to push back against Trump’s latest claims to Greenland, but the language she used is telling. Trump does not care about alliances and security is not his primary goal in Greenland. For a possible timeline to US action on Greenland, assume it might come before November’s midterm elections to Congress. At the same time, we do not yet have a replacement world “order,” just the grisly death throes of the last one.

Source: Taipei Times January 10, 2026 16:10 UTC