It's crunch time. The US Vice President, JD Vance, is hosting the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers, as well as their US counterpart, Marco Rubio, in the White House on Wednesday.
The focus of the talks: the future of the world's biggest island, Greenland.
There is a large digital news ticker tape running above the snow-covered shopping mall in the island's capital, Nuuk. You don't have to speak Greenlandic to understand the words Trump, Greenland and sovereignty that appear over and over again, in stark red letters.
Donald Trump says he wants this country and he'll take it the easy way or the hard way. After his recent controversial military action in Venezuela, people in Greenland are taking him at his word.
The anxious countdown to the Washington meeting has been going on for days. Passers-by tell me it feels like years.
Amelie Zeeb said, I would like to encourage (Donald Trump) to use both his ears wisely, to listen more and to speak less. We are not for sale. Our country is not for sale.
While Maria, with her seven-week-old baby, wrapped snugly inside her winter coat, told me, I worry for the future of my young family. We don't want all this attention here!
But international attention on Greenland is not going to disappear anytime soon. Far more hangs in the balance than the fate of this island alone.
The tussle over Greenland pits NATO nations Denmark and the US against one another.
Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. The Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the US takes control of the island by force, that will be the end of the transatlantic defense alliance that Europe has relied on for security for decades.
President Trump insists he needs Greenland for national security. If the US doesn't take Greenland, then China or Russia will, he says.
With Greenland's fate uncertain, the people hold their breath as negotiations begin.
