From windmills to NATO, Donald Trump let the world have it from the podium of the World Economic Forum. For more than an hour, the president of the United States took on all-comers in his first return to Davos in six years. We ask about the latest threatening language on tariffs and grabbing Greenland, and how an audience of corporate executives feels about a showdown with Europe that's rekindled the threat of a trade war.
How much of it is really about Greenland and, as the US frames it, the broader scramble for the raw materials that will power artificial intelligence?
Flying into the Swiss Alps, Trump is harder on Europeans than on the Chinese and the Russians, whom he again blamed in equal measure with the Ukrainians for so far failing to agree to a settlement.
Ultimately, after a year when they paid even less tax and netted yet more profits, do the corporate titans in the room at Davos care if the US is turning its back on free trade, international law and the independence of its own central bank?
Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Elisa Amiri, Juliette Brown.
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Tariq KRIM Tech entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and founder of Jolicloud
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Lucas CHANCEL Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics
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André Lösekrug-Pietri President, Joint European Disruptive Initiative
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