DAVOS, Switzerland — In a 24-hour span in the Swiss Alps, we’re witnessing what future historians might mark as a hinge moment: The people building civilization-altering AI, a prime minister declaring America’s global order dead, and an expansionist, defiant American president all sharing the same tense global stage.
Why it matters: It’s hard to overstate the seismic shifts shaking this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos.
- Last week, Carney flew to Beijing — the first Canadian PM there in eight years — and announced China has recently been more “predictable” than America. He cut a trade deal with Xi.
Between the lines: Carney ran the Bank of England. He ran the Bank of Canada. He’s not a bomb-thrower. When someone like that says the old alliance is over — not pausing, not wobbling, over — that’s a seismic marker.