The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will be held from Jan. 20 to Jan. 24 at Davos, Europe's highest town.

Trump won’t have helped dispel any overall impression of an appetite for conflict however, having begun the year declining to rule out using military force to seize the Panama Canal or Greenland.

Trump’s remarks will ensure that the leadership of the US, China and the European Union are all represented in some form, according to the forum.