It was actually Ian Bremer's Twitter feed where I came across the meme of I'd like

to cancel my subscription to 2021 of Experience the free seven day trial and I'm not interested.

I follow Ian Bremer's Twitter feed on a fairly regular basis. We've had him on it in the

January of a year, four years now. As usually he's got his global risk list out. I was fascinated

by something Ian Bremer had a while back on how there are a bunch of things that, you know,

we're likely going to happen anyway. They got sped up because of the coronavirus. And

one of them is our crumbling relationship with China. But anyway, Ian Bremer is indeed

the president and founder of Eurasia Group of political risk research and consulting firm

that consults all over the globe. And Ian joins us now. Good morning or good day, sir.

How are you? Happy 2021. Good to be back with you guys. Hope you know. Thank you. It's

always stimulating. And I will say the global risk list is incredibly thought provoking

this year, even by the standards of previous years. And we will get to that in a moment or

two. Yeah. I was fascinated by your take on a lot of things that we're going to have

to happen anyway over a long time. Got sped up by the coronavirus. Can you give us an example

a couple of those? Sure. I mean, the US China confrontation, the lack of trust, their

growth, all of that has been going on. The disruptions that have come from technology

both in terms of our lives and social media and the polarization that comes from that,

but also in terms of people that aren't in the knowledge economy no longer having anything

productive to contribute to capitalism and the disenfranchisement that comes as a consequence,

climate change and the move away from fossil fuels. I mean, all of these things trends that

we're coming accelerated dramatically on the back of coronavirus.

One of the topics we talk about a lot around here and it's difficult to predict obviously

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