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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George Friedman on Life, Work and Money: Geopolitics and Economics
George Friedman unpacks the relationship between geopolitics and economics, with host Langley Respess, as well as the relationship between the United States and China, and how demographics is shaping our future.
Daily Memo: Coal Shortages in China and India
Roadblock. China’s attempts to resolve its ongoing power crunch hit a new snag. New flooding in the central Shanxi province over the weekend shut down a number of coal...
Energy Market Outlook
Chief Operating Officer Antonia Colibasanu and Analyst Ekaterina Zolotova discuss the long-term picture of the global energy market.
China’s Hunt for Coal
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In many ways, China's ongoing electricity crunch is a mess of its own making. It's due in part, for example, to an overly rigid regulatory system that...
Daily Memo: Poland’s Landmark Ruling, Greece Defense Pact With France
EU supremacy. In a landmark judgment, Poland’s Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that some EU treaties are incompatible with Polish law and that EU courts do not have supreme legal...
Daily Memo: Chinese General Dies, NATO Lodges Espionage Allegations
High altitude. A Chinese general formerly in charge of China’s Western Theater Command, which oversees the disputed Himalayan border with India, reportedly died last week. The general, Zhang Xudong,...
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Population Density of Canada
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Canada is one of those countries where a vast land mass obscures the fact that the country has a relatively small population. While Canada is the second largest country in the world, its 35 million inhabitants make Canada only the 39th most populated country.
Live Updates on Ukraine War
All times are approximate local time in Kyiv (GMT+2).
Friday, March 11
11:30 a.m.: The EU's foreign policy chief said the bloc would double its spending...
How the Ukraine War Will Likely End
FREEAs we consider how the war in Ukraine will end, we must first understand how it began. Russia invaded for geostrategic reasons – having...
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