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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Heather Stewart and John Collingridge

‘At the table or on the menu’: a turbulent Davos week with Trump’s circus in town

Donald Trump gestures as he walks down a staircase towards a media throng
Donald Trump attends the 56th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photograph: Romina Amato/Reuters

“If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.” The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, was the darling of Davos this week as he rallied resistance to Donald Trump’s smash and grab politics and his voracious appetite for other countries’ wealth and land.

“Call it what it is,” he told delegates. “A system of intensifying great power rivalry, where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion”. He urged “middle powers” to band together or be crushed, and was rewarded with a standing ovation.

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