Canada and Greenland are seeking to deepen ties as both deal with threats to their sovereignty from U.S. President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump's long-anticipated tariffs on goods from China, Canada, and Mexico were made official on Saturday.

President Trump, 79, insists he wants peace. He’s keen to win a Nobel Peace Prize. But his words and actions are often out of tune. Trump has boasted that Chairman Xi Jinping would never attack Taiwan while he is President because “he knows I’m f***ing crazy”. Then came the Iran crisis.

F-35 advocates point out that the aircraft is fully interoperable with U.S. aircraft, a key point for defending North America as well as use in NATO operations. The jet, built by Lockheed Martin, is becoming the primary fighter jet for many NATO nations.

Overall, Trump’s focus on dominating the Western hemisphere represents a profound shift from nearly a century’s-long focus on warding off overseas threats to protect Americans at home. And like it or not, for Trump, security in the second quarter of the 21st century lies in concepts and ideas first developed in the last quarter of the 19th century.

A year on from his re-election, diplomacy is being driven by the personal whims of the president to an extent that is unprecedented in the modern era Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account.

From trade wars to territorial claims, US president’s second term revives confrontational tone of his first tenure, unsettling allies and adversaries alike - Anadolu Ajansı