Trump withdraws ‘Board of Peace’ invitation to Carney in widening rift with Canada

US President Donald Trump withdrew his invitation to Canada to join the “Peace Board”, days after Prime Minister Mark Carney warned against the economic pressures of the world’s superpowers in his speech in Davos.

“Dear Prime Minister Carney: Please allow this Letter to represent that the Peace Board is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canadian participation,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social in America on Thursday night. he said.

Carney said last week: plans to join the board but details, including financial terms, had not yet been worked out. States seeking permanent seats must pay $1 billion.

His Speech at the World Economic Forum in DavosIn Switzerland earlier this week, Carney said the world’s “middle powers” should come together to resist pressure from the world’s biggest powers.

“The major powers began to use economic integration as a weapon. They began to use tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as pressure, supply chains as vulnerabilities to exploit,” he said.

While Carney did not name any countries, Trump later said on the sidelines of the forum, “Canada lives because of the United States of America. Remember that next time you make a statement, Mark.”

Hours before Carney’s speech, Trump said: published on social media A digitally altered image of a map with Greenland, Venezuela, and Canada covered by the American flag.

In his speech, Carney said that recent events show that the “rules-based international order” is effectively dead, and the world’s superpowers are “pursuing their interests by using economic integration as a weapon of pressure.”

Relations between the two long-standing allies have come under heavy strain during Trump’s second term, which calls the neighboring country the 51st state of the United States and targets it with tariffs.

The “Peace Board” chaired by Trump was initially designed to oversee the demilitarization and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after a two-year war with Israel. But Trump has said he envisions the board taking on a broader role that could ultimately rival the United Nations, alarming many U.S. allies.

Trump received support from Middle Eastern countries such as Türkiye, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as emerging economies such as Indonesia.

But many global powers and Western US traditional allies, including Australia, France, Germany and Italy, were more cautious, and some rejected the proposal. British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper reportedly said this. “We will not be one of the signatories” He expressed concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to participate.

Russia and China are among those invited to the board. Putin’s reportedly Russia told the Security Council that its foreign ministry was still examining the proposal but did not confirm whether China would join.

Carney’s WEF speech follows his high-profile visit to China last week, where he reached a broad agreement with President Xi Jinping to cut tariffs and rebuild ties.

As part of the agreement, Beijing Reduction of customs duties on some agricultural products Ottawa, on the other hand, increased quotas for imports of Chinese electric vehicles into its market, with a most preferred country tariff rate of 6.1%.

Carney praised his strategic partnership with Xi, citing the importance of their ties in the face of a “new world order,” a veiled reference to global instability caused by Trump’s foreign policy swings and destructive trade agenda.