There was moderate relief after US President Donald Trump walked back his threat to take Greenland by force at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January – but also concern among critics and lawmakers that his speech was little more than a diversion at a time of significant global peril.

2. Beijing-Ottawa deal reinforces China’s dominance in EV industry, analysts say

Beijing and Ottawa reached a “landmark” trade agreement in January, slashing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, in a move analysts said further cements China’s dominance and suggests the US decline in the global EV market.

3. European leaders say the quiet part out loud: order no longer constrains power

At Davos, a succession of European leaders took to the stage to acknowledge publicly what had long been discussed in private, and what many other parts of the world had taken as a given for years: that the rules-based order on which modern Europe was built had gone.