In 2010, when he was serving as Norway’s foreign minister, Støre allegedly approached the then-chair of the Nobel Committee, Thorbjørn Jagland, and explained the damage that Norway’s economy would face from China if the prize were awarded to the dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was then serving a lengthy prison sentence. The choice of Aung San Suu Kyi, a dissident in Myanmar who received the prize in 1991, began to look problematic when Aung came to power in 2016 and defended the genocide that the Burmese military carried out against the Rohingya, an ethnic minority group. Støre sat in the audience as Trump brought his grudge against NATO to the crowd of the world’s elites, saying, as the prime minister summarized the message, We give everything to NATO, and we get nothing in return.
Author: Isaac Stanley-Becker, Simon Shuster
Published at: 2026-02-15 20:46:44
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