Luke Vargas
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potentially getting a right of first refusal on investments in Greenland's mineral resources.
The journal's Georgy Konchev told me that last item could be a key one for the White House.
Denmark's foreign minister casts Trump's about-face as a relief, saying that yesterday was, quote, ending on a better note than it began.
Though others, like Finland's President Alexander Stubb, speaking here with our Yaroslav Trofimov,
said that any relief was temporary.
So how did the U.S.
U-turn on Greenland go down at Davos?
And what else happened at a gathering that was meant to tackle a slew of global economic challenges?
Who better to ask than journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker, who's in Davos this morning.
Emma, I think fair to say there was a lot of hand-wringing this week over Trump's push for Greenland and now relief that war seems to have been averted.
A roller coaster certainly for those of us watching from afar, but I'm curious how it all went down with those inside the Davos bubble.
So the arrival of the U.S.
delegation making for some good dinner theater, it sounds like.
And yet we learned a lot this week, did we not, about America's role in the world and how other countries are positioning themselves in relation to it?
Emma, what about any signs of hedging away from the U.S.?
China, for instance, really tried to use Davos this year to pitch themselves as the consensus builder in the room.
I'm curious what those same CEOs made about the other big thing we heard from Trump this week at Davos, his affordability push going after institutional homebuyers, trying to cap credit card interest rates and and pushing the defense sector to scale back its stock buybacks.
Emma Tucker is The Wall Street Journal's editor-in-chief.
Emma, thanks so much.