The Davos meeting this week will be very interesting, especially the US contribution. The US appears to be a selfishly motivated disruptor. Last year, the US announced territorial ambitions for Canada and Greenland. This year, the US wants to make some sort of follow up announcement related to last year's ambitions.
Canada's economy has grown despite the Economic War waged by the US, so that's a failure for the US. To protect Greenland, several initiatives have been undertaken by Canada, Australia, Arctic neighbours of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, plus NATO to protect the Arctic region.
The US wants to declare a "win" at Davos, to claim that although the US failed with Canada, there was success with Greenland - and every country in the world will push back. How will the madness in the US respond?
"The fight for the future of Greenland looms over the gathering of world leaders and businesses at the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week.
Indeed,
the timing of Donald Trump's extraordinary threat seems likely to have had this meeting in mind.
Last year, there was awkward shuffling as he mentioned his
territorial ambitions for Canada and Greenland, and made an "offer you can't refuse" to those importing into his country. Build factories in the US or pay tariffs that will raise trillions: "Your prerogative."
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"A spirit of dialogue" is the official theme, and while there are certainly opportunities at an event like this for conversations not possible elsewhere, there is much in the US administration's approach that seems to be opposed to the call for global cooperation that is the essence of this place.
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Trump himself will be arriving in the Swiss alps with five cabinet members, a massive entourage of administration officials, and the US business elite, from Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Microsoft's Satya Nadella.
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Carney has ridden out the best part of a year of US trade chaos with a growing economy, having replaced the US with other trade partners and was recently spotted proclaiming a
new world order protecting multilateralism with Xi Jinping in China."
Expect the World Economic Forum this week to be both the centre of the world and totally bizarre.
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"June 20, 2025, representatives of the governments of Canada and Australia signed a landmark technology partnership arrangement, a critical milestone in the rapid development and deployment of Canada’s A-OTHR system.
Through this arrangement, Australian industry partners will work with Canadian companies to build expertise and capacity in Canada, grow our domestic sovereign defence industry, support high-paying Canadian jobs, and help Canada scale up its own radar system and technology.
Canada’s Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar (A-OTHR) system is a key component of Canada’s North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) modernization plan and will provide advanced early warning, enable faster detection and decision making by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) for airborne threats, and provide long-range surveillance to meet Canada’s domestic and continental security needs."
On June 20, 2025, representatives of the governments of Canada and Australia signed a landmark technology partnership arrangement, a critical milestone in the rapid development and deployment of Canada’s A-OTHR system.
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