<h1>Territorial acquisition and use of force: President elect signals military and economic measures to secure strategic territories.</h1> The President elect signalled willingness to use military force or other coercive measures to secure the Panama Canal and Greenland, arguing both are vital to US economic and national security and questioning Denmark's legal title to Greenland; he also threatened high tariffs if Greenland sought union with the United States. Greenland's government, by contrast, is pursuing independence through the Self Government Act and a draft constitution, which it presents as the legal basis for achieving statehood.