US President Donald Trumps abrupt climbdown on using tariffs as a weapon to seize Greenland brought relief on Thursday but left uncertainty on ending a standoff that has risked the deepest rupture in transatlantic ties in decades.
After weeks of threats, Trump stepped back from the threat of imposing tariffs on countries opposing his plans and ruled out using force, suggesting instead that a framework deal over the Arctic island was in sight.
Trumps ambition to wrest sovereignty over Greenland from fellow Nato member Denmark has threatened to blow apart the alliance that underpinned Western security since the end of World War Two and reignite a trade war with Europe.
