Despite bellicose language from President-elect Donald Trump, a US takeover of Greenland will never occur, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday in Paris.

In Paris, the two officials acknowledged potential strains on alliances with the return of Donald J. Trump to power, but said their countries would try to maintain strong ties.

Donald Trump made clear again this week that he’d like the semiautonomous territory of Denmark to come under US control and said he would not rule out the use of military force to make that happen.