This time around, it is more aggressive, more unpredictable and more willing to accept the risk of domestic and global backlash. It all points to a White House eager to rewrite the rules of U.S. power and reassert American dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at violent clashes following a crucial vote in Uganda, new trade commitments between Canada and China, and U.S. congressional support for Danish control of Greenland.

So far, ruling and opposition parties scrambling to prepare for the sudden snap election in February have put foreign-national issues on the backburner.

It will become increasingly hard for the Modi government to offset foreign policy setbacks with domestic successes as the full impact of US tariffs starts to bite.