U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to handle the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with the world watching closely after his threats of annexing Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.
The speech — which shall be streamed live on this post — comes a day after world leaders and historic allies of the U.S. repudiated Trump’s threats to annex the island, and after Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a serious foreign policy speech to the identical venue during which he said that “the old order just isn’t coming back.”
On Saturday, Trump said he would impose a ten per cent import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations due to their opposition to an American seizure of Greenland, which Trump has not ruled out seizing by force and argues the U.S. needs for “national security.”
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During a White House press conference Tuesday, Trump was asked how far he would go to amass Greenland.
“You’ll discover,” he said.
The move has drawn criticism from allies, including the European Union and Canada. European Council President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU’s response could be “unflinching, united and proportional.”
Carney says Canada “strongly opposes” tariffs on countries opposing U.S. annexation of Greenland and that Canada’s commitment to the principle of collective defence — Article 5 — of the military alliance NATO is “unwavering.”
“On Arctic sovereignty, we stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to find out Greenland’s future. Our commitment to NATO’s Article 5 is unwavering,” he said.
More to come back.
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