political division

Populism vs. moderate politics

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Populism vs. moderate politics

Tony Blair says three challenges will define geopolitics in the near future: the Western relationship with China, making democracy more effective, and harnessing the tech revolution. How can we address them? The former British PM — who along with then-US President Bill Clinton led the centrist "Third Way" of politics in the 1990s — says that we need to return to the center to match challenges that'll be more practical than ideological. Speaking to Ian Bremmer on GZERO World, Blair notes that populism wins when voters believe that centrism can't solve their problems.

António Guterres: Ukraine war united NATO, but further divided the world

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António Guterres: Ukraine war united NATO, but further divided the world

Russia invaded Ukraine with impunity — and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres fears it may not be the last middle-sized power to pick a fight without consequence in the near future because global security governance is largely bankrupt. "The capacity of deterrence that would exist if the whole powers, with the security council, will be able to say, 'This can't be done,' is not there," he tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

Global inflation shock

Global inflation shock

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: No matter what your government looks like, you're dealing with very high inflation. This is a global inflation shock. The economic disruption hit everybody. First, COVID destroyed global supply chains, seizing up the global economy. Then China's zero-COVID - just as the United States and the Europeans vaxxed and relaxed, started unmasking and going about our business - the Chinese locked down Shanghai and Beijing and some of China's most important ports. We still get so many of our goods, especially the low-cost ones, from China. That hits with greater supply chain risk. On top of that, the war, the Russians invading Ukraine, leading to massive disruptions in energy, massive disruptions in food and fertilizer - all of that is increasing prices.