Is the world order rupturing? How global finance chiefs are reacting to Carney’s Davos message

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DAVOS, Switzerland -- The world order is changing but not enduring a rupture, finance leaders said on Friday, pushing back on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s narrative that a new order, driven by major power coercion, was taking shape.

In his speech at Davos, Carney called on nations to accept that a rules-based global order was over and great powers were abandoning even the pretense of following international agreements.

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Quoting ancient Greek historian Thucydides, Carney said the world was entering a period in which “the strong can do what they can and the weak must suffer what they must.”

“I’m not exactly on the same page as Mark,” European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde told the World Economic Forum in Davos, just days after Carney’s appearance. “I’m not sure that we should be talking about rupture.”

“I think we should be talking about alternatives. We should be identifying, much more so than we have probably in the past, the weaknesses, the sore points, the dependencies, the autonomy,” she said.

‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’

World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that uncertainty was unlikely to remain as high as this month, when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to take over Greenland from NATO ally Denmark.

But the old order was also not going to return, uncertainty would linger and countries must invest in their own resilience, she said.

“I don’t think we’ll go back to where we were. But they will not be as bad and maybe we’ll have a slightly better, steady state for the future,” Okonjo-Iweala said.

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If I was running a country, I’d be trying to strengthen myself and my region, and I’d be looking at my region and then building resilience."

Kristalina Georgieva, the International Monetary Fund’s director, argued that change was natural and has been happening for years, and it was time to embrace this because shocks would keep happening.

“We are not in Kansas, anymore,” she said, referencing a line in the Wizard of Oz, meaning that the comforts of familiar surroundings were gone for good.

Lagarde, who walked out of a Davos dinner during a speech critical of Europe by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, was in a more forgiving mood on Friday.

“We have heard quite a lot of European-bashing in the last few days, but if anything, it has been good, and we should say ‘thank you’ to the bashers, because I think it has given us a complete realization of the fact that we have to be more focused; we have to work on those plans B.”

Reporting by Balazs Koranyi in Frankfurt; Editing by Alison Williams and Alex Richardson, Reuters