Anders Lomholt
Role at the time: Defense correspondent at TV 2 (Denmark), in a signed 'Lynanalyse' (flash analysis) entry in TV 2's live blog 'Kampen om Grønlands fremtid'
Statement summary
TV 2 defense correspondent Anders Lomholt wrote, in a signed flash analysis in the outlet's live blog, that reaching an agreement looks on its face like a big win for diplomacy but depends entirely on the agreement's actual content. He added that if it goes as far as Trump suggests it would in several respects resemble a ceding of sovereignty, citing a possible U.S. veto over who may have a military presence in Greenland. The quotation is a translation from Danish.
“But it depends entirely on the agreement's actual content. If it goes as far as Trump suggests, it looks in several respects like a ceding of sovereignty.”
Why we used this label
Lomholt says reaching an agreement looks on its face like a big diplomatic win, that this depends entirely on its actual content, and that if it goes as far as Trump suggests it would in several respects resemble a ceding of sovereignty; he neither accepts nor rejects Trump's description and says the answer awaits the text. The closest competing label is condemns, because he calls the version Trump suggests, if accurate, a ceding of sovereignty. That loses because the criticism is expressly conditional, sits beside his description of the agreement as possibly a big win for diplomacy, and he closes by saying the outcome cannot be known until the agreement becomes a reality.