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From the Desk of George Friedman

The Beginning of the Cyclic Shift

George Friedman - June 4, 2020

A number of people have asked me if the events this week are what I was predicting in my book, “The Storm Before the Calm.” They asked because they thought my predictions were arriving too early. This is very much the kind of thing I was expecting and about the time I was expecting it […]

From China to India

George Friedman - June 2, 2020

U.S.-China relations have been in decline for a long time. The United States had for years provided China with relatively free access to the...

Friedman’s Thoughts In and Around Geopolitics: Why There Won’t Be a War With China

George Friedman - May 28, 2020

Jacek Bartosiak, a close friend and collaborator, wrote a piece earlier in the week that concluded with a discussion of U.S.-China relations. He and...

Israel and the New American Strategy

George Friedman - May 26, 2020

The drawdown of U.S. forces in the Middle East, about which we have written a few times now, is already empowering the countries that...

Friedman’s Thoughts In and Around Geopolitics: Texas, the Comanche and a Virus

George Friedman - May 21, 2020

On an ordinary weekday, my wife and I went for a drive for no reason other than after weeks of being in lockdown we...

Back to the Future: China and the US

George Friedman - May 18, 2020

The COVID-19 disease, which seems likely to be with us for a long time, has done its part to define history. But it has...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Resurrecting a Forecast

George Friedman - May 14, 2020

Geopolitical Futures is the second company I founded to forecast geopolitics. Many things such as the weather and econometrics are forecast with a degree...