I got a what if for everyone...could china have been trying to broker a deal behind the scene for access to resources and construction of a military base with Denmark and trump talking about making a deal with Denmark make such a deal politicly impossible to happen because now the public in Denmark is watching what its politicians are doing.
Certainly a plausible possibility. The Chinese have been making overtures to the government of Greenland. The Chinese want to establish a presence in Greenland.