Trade War

Democracy Dies in Darkness Trump’s push to take over Greenland and unleash a trade war with European nations has sparked the greatest transatlantic crisis in generations. Updated January 20, 2026 President Donald Trump meets with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at the White House in April. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)…

Gold (XAU/USD) rallies on Monday after falling to a four-day low on Friday, edging up more than 1.50%, and hovers near the $4,700 figure after reaching a new all-time high courtesy of geopolitical uncertainty amid the US-European Union trade-war escalation over the weekend. XAU/USD trades at $4,672 at the time…

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UK Starmer rules out US trade war, calls for ‘calm diplomacy’ over Greenland The UK prime minister Keir Starmer has called for pursuing calm diplomacy on the disputable matter of Greenland instead of waging retaliatory trade war against the United States. According to Starmer, imposing the trade tariffs on the…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs against allies over Greenland is “completely wrong” and a trade war is in no one’s interest. Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods…

Article content “This isn’t Iran we’re talking about, it’s Denmark,” Scott Lincicome, a trade analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, said, adding that the move will anger “a lot of folks.” Article content Republican Senator Thom Tillis and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen issued a joint statement urging the Trump administration to…

Jan. 18, 2026, 6:00 AM EST Moments after he took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump made a promise to Americans. “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end,…

President Donald Trump has escalated tensions with key European allies after announcing plans to impose rising tariffs on goods from eight NATO member countries, linking the measures to his administration’s push for the United States to acquire Greenland. In a statement posted on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump said imports…

Jan. 16, 2026, 4:26 PM EST President Donald Trump’s authoritarian fantasies and economic destruction successfully chased Canada into China’s waiting embrace on Friday. Trump has made lofty promises to restore global respect for the United States, which he asserts was lost during the Biden administration. Just days ago, in fact,…

A U.S. move to seize Greenland could damage trade ties with the European Union, France's finance minister has warned, as one analyst told CNBC that tariffs or economic sanctions could lead to a "trade war." U.S. President Donald Trump has ramped up talk of annexing Greenland this month — and has…