Both Panama and Greenland responded to the statements, stressing that their territorial integrity was non-negotiable. Earlier this week, the US President-elect came under fire for threatening economic force to turn Canada into America’s 51st state, angering Canadian officials who stated that they were not treating this as a joke.

Writing on X (formerly Twitter), outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that there “isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States”, to which soon to be US government adviser Elon Musk responded by saying: “Girl, you’re not the governor of Canada anymore, so doesn’t matter what you say.”

Should these threats be taken seriously?

After 9:45, we talk about the ongoing Los Angeles fire, which claimed the lives of at least 5 people and reduced entire neighbourhoods to ashes.


9:05am-9:45am: Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland and Panama

9:05am-9:45am: Tim Huxley, Chairman of Mandarin Shipping

9:05am-9:30am: Ross Feingold, Head of Research at Caerus Consulting and former Asia Chairman of Republicans Abroad

9:30am-9:45am: William Pesek, Tokyo-based journalist and author

9:45am-10:00am: Los Angeles fires

9:45am-10:00am: Huang Xinyuan, Associate Professor at the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Leader of the the Centre for Smart Urban Resilience and Firefighting; Board member at the International Association of Wildland Fire