Shibuya District, Tokyo. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya#/media/File:Shibuya_District_at_Night_2015-04_(17806976882).jpg">IQRemix (CC)</a>
Shibuya District, Tokyo. CREDIT: IQRemix (CC)

George Friedman: The End of the International Order and the Future of Asia

Aug 1, 2017

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Tired of conventional wisdom? Check out geopolitical forecaster George Friedman. The period that began at the end of World War II was a freak, he says. "We're returning to a more normal structure in which the nation-state is dominant, international trade is intense but managed by states for their own benefit, and where this idea that the nation-state is obsolete goes away." And find out why he's bullish on Japan and thinks we overestimate China.

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