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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: US and Japan to Overhaul Defense Partnership

Major U.S.-Japan upgrade. U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed to upgrade command and control and boost military operability and planning during a summit Wednesday in Washington. The leaders announced more than 70 agreements in total, including on strengthening supply chains for critical goods such as semiconductors. They also discussed the […]

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Daily Memo: AUKUS Expansion, Beijing-Taiwan Relations

Expanding alliance. South Korea, New Zealand and Canada are under consideration as potential partners on high-tech projects with the AUKUS security grouping, according to a report by the Yonhap...

Daily Memo: Eurasian Security Cooperation, Turkey-Israel Spat

NATO not welcome. Russia and China agreed to discuss greater security cooperation in Eurasia to resist U.S. pressure, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after meeting with Wang Yi,...

Daily Memo: Lavrov Arrives in Beijing, Ex-Wagner Fighters Join Chechen Unit

Russia and China. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived on Monday in China for talks on bilateral relations, the situation in Ukraine and the Asia-Pacific region. The visit comes...

India Invests in Military Self-Reliance

(click to enlarge) India has long been one of Asia's top spenders on defense, second only to China. Much of this spending is necessary to supply the country's enormous force...

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