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22.01 / 14:49

markets UPS President information testing rights Alarm over Trump’s Greenland threat gives way to uncertainty around ‘future deal’

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump has stepped back from the brink on Greenland. Now the question is what happens next.

22.01 / 10:03

COST security President War Relationships Mint Explainer | How Trump’s Greenland gambit put Nato on the brink

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. US President Donald Trump’s speech at Davos was meant to be a bellwether for the trans-Atlantic relationship, particularly Nato, with his handling of Greenland closely watched. After the speech, it appears Nato has survived, but barely.

22.01 / 10:03

FIVE security President students War International In Greenland, anxiety over US ambitions puts normal life on pause

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NUUK, Greenland—As President Trump spoke Wednesday, Rikke Østergaard was anxiously refreshing news coverage at her desk, trying to understand whether the president had categorically ruled out an invasion. “My nerves are in flight or fight….

22.01 / 08:03

markets UPS security President Divinity Pride country Mr. Trump and the Davos divide

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Those of a religious bent might accuse stereotypical “Davos Man"—immense fortune, private jet, outrageous hypocrisy, spine-tingling pomposity—of the sin of pride. In which case President Trump’s speech Wednesday to the World Economic Forum at Davos felt like a form of divine retribution.

22.01 / 01:45

markets UPS FIVE Trade President Five reasons why gold is surging toward $5,000 an ounce

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Investors have plenty to worry about lately. Whether it is lower bond yields, expensive stocks or President Trump’s tariffs, their response has been the same: buy gold.

22.01 / 01:45

markets COST security President War country The true danger posed by Donald Trump

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. EUROPEANs EXPECTED a diatribe, but in Davos President Donald Trump was almost conciliatory. He demanded “right, title and ownership" of Greenland, but abandoned tariffs, ruled out force and later hailed new “framework" talks.

21.01 / 10:31

UPS security President social politician Europe has three options for defending Greenland

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “IT IS NOT easy to think about solutions when you wake up every morning to new threats." Such was the understated view of Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister, on January 14th. He and his Greenlandic counterpart had just held a testy meeting with Marco Rubio, America’s secretary of state, and J.D.

21.01 / 09:39

markets UPS economy Trade President shock The China shock may get worse but trade has proven resilient and globalization just can’t be reversed

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The good news for China is its export machine is still very much a going concern. It might even be described as thriving, despite US tariffs.

21.01 / 09:01

markets Action security economy Trade country International Greenland clash risks undermining America’s place in world economic order

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Escalating tensions over Greenland are supercharging a dynamic that was already under way: a shift in the world economic order that had put the U.S. at the center of the global economy.

21.01 / 06:35

security President War country social peace Russia cheers the growing NATO rift over Greenland

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to undermine NATO for nearly two decades. Now, as President Trump pushes to control Greenland, Moscow is cheering from the sidelines.

21.01 / 02:23

Provident security Trade Latin International Donald Trump’s adventurism is unsettling China

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Surveying his geopolitical scorecard at the end of last year, Xi Jinping had reasons to be cheerful. China’s leader had just stared down his American counterpart, Donald Trump, in a trade war.

21.01 / 02:23

markets UPS Strategy Trade President country social Trump’s Greenland strategy draws from familiar playbook

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—European leaders have for months responded to President Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland with a simple refrain: it isn’t for sale. Now, those same leaders are rushing to set up meetings with Trump about the future of the territory after the U.S.

21.01 / 02:23

UPS President rights boating Why Denmark controls Greenland

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President Trump questioned the legitimacy of Denmark’s claims to Greenland over the weekend while amping up rhetoric for his plans for the U.S. to acquire the Danish-held region.

20.01 / 15:19

UPS Target President War country Interviews Greenland rift makes NATO vulnerable to Russia, says senior German general

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BERLIN—The rift between the U.S. and Europe over Greenland is making the trans-Atlantic alliance vulnerable to a Russian attack on NATO territory, one of Germany’s highest ranking officers warned.

20.01 / 08:39

Trade President show country Courts International Why the Supreme Court tariff case is such a big deal

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The world is waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the legality of President Trump’s “emergency" tariffs, and Mr. Trump’s weekend tariff spree against European allies underscores again why his abuse of his authority needs to be reined in.

20.01 / 05:51

UPS Action security President country Interviews Why an emboldened Trump set his sights on Greenland

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In late 2018, President Trump asked his national security adviser, John Bolton, to weigh in on an idea floated by a prominent businessman: Should the U.S. buy Greenland? Bolton said he would look into it.

20.01 / 02:33

security awards Trade President War country peace Trump links Greenland threats to missing out on Nobel Prize

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BRUSSELS—President Trump told Norway that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace" after being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize, as European leaders scrambled to talk him out of a damaging trans-Atlantic trade war. So far, the European Union and the U.K.

20.01 / 02:33

markets COST UPS Provident Digital country shock Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs are no great blow to Europe

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. EUROPEANS ARE no longer shocked by the threat of tariffs. They know President Donald Trump regards them as a fee for access to the American market, as leverage for American access to their own and as punishment for perceived slights.

19.01 / 15:25

markets COST ETF Trade track Silver hits record overseas, but India trades at ₹10,000 discount as demand cools

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI: Even as silver surged to a record high of $93.22, or ₹9,412, an ounce (31.10 grams) in overseas markets, the Indian physical market saw the white metal trading at a discount of ₹10,000 per kg to the landed cost, as demand slowed at historic price levels, trade participants said.

19.01 / 14:05

security awards Trade President War country peace Trump links Greenland threats to missing out on Nobel Prize

19.01 / 09:59

markets UPS Fighting security Trade President War Europe’s ‘mice’ must find their inner tigers to roar back as Trump turns tariffs into weapons over Greenland

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Cold War satirical novel The Mouse That Roared imagined a tiny European statelet declaring war on the US in the hope of being lavished with American aid after its inevitable defeat. It’s a title that came to mind when European nations sent three dozen soldiers to Greenland in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats to wrest the island from Danish control.

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