Minnesota, Greenland, Davos and China
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Hi, I'm Kim Vinnell in Whanganui, New Zealand. It's Monday, January 19th. Today, soldiers are put on standby for anti-ice protests in Minneapolis. The EU looks to diplomacy first over Trump's Greenland tariff threats, but prepares retaliatory measures just in case. World leaders head to Davos for the World Economic Forum. And China wants to make it as easy as possible to have kids after another year of declining birth rates. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. The Pentagon has put about 1,500 soldiers in Alaska on standby for a possible deployment to Minnesota, where people have been rallying daily against the stepped up deportations.
On Sunday, crowds in St.
Why were 1,500 U.S. soldiers put on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota?
Paul honked and shouted as ICE agents, guns drawn, stormed a home and pulled out a man wearing only underwear and a blanket into the snowy street. Anti-ICE demonstrators have been out in force since an ICE officer shot 37-year-old Renee Good dead earlier this month. President Trump has threatened to use the Insurrection Act to bring the situation under control. And as Phil Stewart in Washington, D.C. explains, local leaders say that would only inflame tensions.
I think the big question is if Trump were to deploy troops to Minneapolis, you know, would we be in a whole different ballgame really at that point? Because the idea potentially could be to, you know, really address these protests more directly. And if he invokes the Insurrection Act, that would be treating these folks as insurrectionists, which again gets into major legal issues given the right for peaceful demonstration inside the United States.
To Europe now, where diplomats are rushing to head off a tariff fight sparked by America's push to buy Greenland. After meeting in Brussels, EU ambassadors say the plan now is to try and talk President Donald Trump out of imposing new tariffs on US allies. But they're also preparing to head back if he goes ahead. Trump has threatened duties on Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, plus Britain and Norway, until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland. Danish Foreign Minister Lars-Locke Rasmussen says Europe will listen to reasonable US concerns but won't hand over the territory. One option the EU is weighing is retaliatory tariffs. The other is the anti-coercion instrument, a tool designed to push back when the bloc feels another country is trying to apply economic pressure.
Reuters' Brussels chief correspondent, Philip Bleckensop, explains what that means.
Now, this is something that's never been used. It's ideally there as a deterrent. It offers a range of options, of countermeasures to what's called coercion or economic coercion. And the argument would be that in placing tariffs on these countries, the The United States would be coercing the European Union and the European countries to get in over Greenland. The options include tariffs, but they also include perhaps restrictions on access to investments to the banking activities in the block and also perhaps restrictions on the trade in services and this may be significant because unlike goods the us has a trade surplus in services with regard to the eu and of course we can think of certain services uh whether it be you know financial banking but also obviously digital services where the united states is dominant and obviously those companies rely on access to the european market
to make their money.
And Philip says some in the EU want to go even further.
Another which has been raised by a German lawmaker is boycotting the World Cup, which is going to be hosted largely in the United States next year. Now, obviously, we haven't got to that point yet.
For more on how the potential tariff war is impacting markets, here's Mike Dolan from our sister Markets podcast, Morning Bit.
Hi, Kim. Yeah, as you might expect, global stock markets have fallen on this latest tariff threat from Donald Trump, this time over Greenland against eight European allies.
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