Two people were hospitalized in the city of Portland, Oregon, on Thursday after being shot by federal officers, police said. Her health status is currently unclear. Read more about this here.
US President Donald Trump has described what the People’s Republic does with regard to Taiwan as a matter for China. Chinese President Xi Jinping views Taiwan “as part of China, and it’s up to him what he will do,” Trump told the New York Times newspaper on Thursday. “But I expressed to him that I would be very unhappy if he did that, and I don’t think he will. I hope he doesn’t.”
In view of the dispute over US control over Greenland, according to an insider, advisors to President Donald Trump have already met with envoys from Denmark and Greenland. The meeting between representatives of the National Security Council in the White House with Danish Ambassador Jesper Moller Sorensen and Greenland’s chief representative in Washington, Jacob Isbosethsen, took place on Thursday, a Danish government official who wished to remain anonymous told the Reuters news agency. The aim was to obtain more clarity about the USA’s statements on Greenland. The White House did not initially confirm the meeting.
