Deal or no deal? That was the question waiting for Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen on Friday in Greenland.
On a snap visit to show “strong Danish support” for the island, an autonomous territory of the kingdom of Denmark for three centuries, Frederiksen had barely landed when a journalist wanted to know “if the crisis is over?”
Frederiksen had no answer. Instead she walked away from the cameras with Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
It was a telling, wordless moment in what Frederiksen, with a dash of understatement, called a “serious situation”.
“Everyone can see that,” she replied to an earlier question. “Now there is a diplomatic,…