D-1, threatening territorial expansion, no world police...Blatant 'U.S. First'

[Anchor]
President-elect Trump, who has returned to the "MAGA" to make the United States greater, is shaking the international order by pressing for territorial expansion.

Along with its willingness to expand its territory, including the purchase of Greenland, it is expected to push U.S. priority as a foreign policy stance not to engage in international disputes.

This is Washington correspondent Hong Sang-hee.

[Reporter]
Shortly after the U.S. Congress certified the presidential election, Trump's one-liners claimed that the Canadian people wanted to become the 51st U.S. state.

In his second press conference since his election, he said he could also demand the transfer of Greenland and the return of the Danish Panama Canal operation rights, even hinting at the possibility of using military force.

[Reporter (last 7 days): Are you sure the world will not put military or economic pressure on (Greenland and Panama Canal) control?]

[Donald Trump/ U.S. President-elect] No.I can't be sure of either, but I can tell you that we need two places for economic security.

In other words, for the benefit of the United States, we can also use force against our ally Denmark.

If Trump declares war on the return of territorial expansion, there is also a clear isolationism that he will refuse to play the role of police in the world defending liberal democracy.

If we end the war between Ukraine and Gaza early and NATO members do not spend 5% of their gross domestic product and GDP on defense, we will leave NATO.

[Donald Trump/ U.S. President-elect (August last year): NATO countries are all spending far less than 2% of GDP on the military, and it's the U.S. that's making up the difference and paying the shortfall. Two percent is "theft of the century," especially when we're paying for it.]


In addition to the first phase of isolationism, blatant U.S. priority with expansionism is emerging as a risk of shaking the international order.

[Thomas Gift/ Professor, University College London] Essentially a militant isolationist, a kind of one-sided approach. He (Trump) is turning the world order into a much more transactional foreign policy.

The ultimate goal of Trump's second term, stronger America First, is to check China.

It is read as a strategy to gain the upper hand in the US-China hegemony competition by strategically controlling Greenland, which is trying to expand into the Panama Canal and Arctic Ocean, which China is investing in.

It is expected that Korea will face pressure not only to raise defense cost contributions but also to establish relations with China.

Stable management of Korea-China relations is emerging as a task for the Korean government amid the U.S. checks as the second Trump period is expected to be more fierce competition for U.S.-China hegemony.

I'm Hong Sang-hee from Washington.