Good morning. The annual gathering of political and business leaders in Davos opened against a backdrop of war, trade threats and a rapidly fraying global order – with the World Economic Forum once again struggling to reconcile its talk of cooperation with the realities of great-power confrontation.
Above all, one figure has dominated the week more than any theme or panel discussion – Donald Trump. He appears to have been determined to use the Alpine summit as a stage for his own vision of how the world should work.
