How could Donald Trump ‘take’ Greenland?
Most of the G7 leaders are coming, as will Ukrainian President Zelensky, along with 65 other heads of state and government and 850 of the world’s top bosses, and dozens more tech pioneers.
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.
Instead it will be Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who will represent the vision of North America that Europe would love to will into existence. 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.
The Chinese themselves will be present at finance minister level, offering up their country – the world’s second largest economy and now largest car exporter – as the world’s grown ups. It is a place where every year they seem to tap their watches and wait for their slow economic, technological and geopolitical ascent.
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