‘At the table or on the menu’: a turbulent Davos week with Trump’s circus in town

Dissenting voices were few and far between as the US president brought his smash-and-grab politics to the WEF

If we're not at the table, we're on the menu." The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, was the darling of Davos this week as he rallied resistance to Donald Trump's smash and grab politics and his voracious appetite for other countries' wealth and land.

Call it what it is," he told delegates. A system of intensifying great power rivalry, where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion". He urged middle powers" to band together or be crushed, and was rewarded with a standing ovation.