Geopolitical Futures

Geopolitical Futures (GPF) was founded in 2015 by George Friedman, international strategist and author of The Storm Before the Calm and The Next 100 Years. GPF is non-ideological, analyzes the world and forecasts the future using geopolitics: political, economic, military and geographic dimensions at the foundation of a nation.

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Daily Memo: New Belarus Sanctions, Sounding Alarms About China

Testing boundaries. The president of the European Commission on Monday called on member states to impose new sanctions on Belarus, which Brussels accused of facilitating illegal migration. Thousands of migrants are still stuck at the Polish-Belarusian border. In the meantime, Lithuania increased its troops’ readiness at the Belarusian border. Maritime borders. The foreign ministers of […]

Daily Memo: Britain Reaches Out to Southeast Asia, China’s Supply Chain Woes Show Progress

Southeast Asia tour. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss arrived on Sunday in Malaysia as part of a weeklong tour of Southeast Asia. Truss said London wants to develop stronger...

Status of the Global Economic Recovery

(click to enlarge) This is not our first Weekly Graphic on global economic trends, and it certainly won't be our last. Economies around the world are still climbing out of...

Daily Memo: Polish-Belarusian Border Gets Tense, China Holds Firm on ‘COVID Zero’

Standoff. Poland’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday that around 250 migrants were spotted across the border in Belarus guarded by Belarusian soldiers who threatened to open fire at Polish...

Daily Memo: Chinese Military Power, Clashes in Northern Ireland

Nuclear buildup. China is planning to quadruple its stockpile of deliverable nuclear weapons by 2030, according to the latest version of the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on Chinese...

Daily Memo: Taiwan Rumors and Visits, US-Russian Spy Meeting

China and Taiwan. China has reportedly been cracking down on a surge of online speculation about a possible cross-strait conflict with Taiwan. Like many authoritarian regimes, Beijing often tries...

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