Vance tells Greenlanders that China's coming for them


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J.D. Vance has ruffled feathers during a controversial trip to Greenland, where he accused Denmark of effectively abandoning the territory to Beijing and Moscow and told residents their climate was "cold as s—." Vance declared that the US could no longer "bury our head in the snow" and ignore China's attempts to establish itself in the semi-autonomous territory during the first ever visit to Greenland by a US vice-president on Friday (Saturday AEDT). He explicitly urged Greenlanders to vote for independence from Denmark, urging its citizens to join the US's "security umbrella" in comments that have caused outrage in Copenhagen….