{"id":56848,"date":"2026-01-15T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/protest-in-copenhagen-voices-opposition-to-u-s-plans-on-greenland\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:53:32","slug":"protest-in-copenhagen-voices-opposition-to-u-s-plans-on-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/protest-in-copenhagen-voices-opposition-to-u-s-plans-on-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest in Copenhagen voices opposition to U.S. plans on Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstration, named &#8220;Greenland Belongs to the Greenlanders,&#8221; began at 4 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) in front of the embassy and was later moved by police to the opposite side of the street. The protest lasted around two hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only want to be ourselves. We want to belong to Greenland as Greenlanders, and we will stay strong and committed to that,&#8221; a Greenlander, Andersen, told Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody should be able to take over another country &#8211; not because someone thinks they are strong and therefore can take whatever they want,&#8221; said Simon Vincent Nelson, a Copenhagen resident, adding that he was &#8220;very angry about it and felt offended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rally followed U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s renewed remarks to acquire Greenland, which have been firmly rejected by Denmark, Greenland, and NATO allies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100630\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/adc4563bd47441919ad15a9b49c96dcf.jpg.png\" alt=\"People participate in a protest against U.S. plans on Greenland in Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan. 14, 2026. About 200 protesters rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Denmark Wednesday, expressing opposition to Washington&#039;s plans on Greenland as Danish and Greenlandic officials met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 protesters rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Denmark Wednesday, expressing opposition to Washington&#8217;s plans on Greenland as Danish and Greenlandic officials met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000100629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100629,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/adc4563bd47441919ad15a9b49c96dcf.jpg.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/adc4563bd47441919ad15a9b49c96dcf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/adc4563bd47441919ad15a9b49c96dcf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/adc4563bd47441919ad15a9b49c96dcf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/adc4563bd47441919ad15a9b49c96dcf.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/adc4563bd47441919ad15a9b49c96dcf.jpg.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56848"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56848"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}