Surveillance: 2020 Is A Tipping Point, Eurasia's Bremmer Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group President & Founder, says 2020 is a tipping point for the big global trends out there. Meredith Sumpter, Eurasia Group Head of Research Strategy & Operations, says a trade conflict was expected between the U.S. and China year ago, but it was expected to be resolved. Henry Rome, Eurasia Group Iran Analyst, believes the killing of Qasem Soleimani will come to be seen as a miscalculation from the U.S. Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group Managing Director for Europe, says the EU doesn't have a great strategic answer for the U.K.'s exit. And Amy Myers Jaffe, CFR David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment & Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, offers her insight on recent events in the Middle East and energy.
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| 0:58.5 | We welcome all of you worldwide and across the nation to a conversation with Ian Bremer. |
| 1:04.0 | Let me explain here right now out of Tling, Dr. Bremer has built a franchise over a well |
| 1:10.6 | decade with Eurasia Group and what he's done like any lead singer running a good |
| 1:15.9 | band is to be sure everybody in the band is better than him and he has put together an |
| 1:20.4 | outstanding team at Eurasia Group over the years of true experts. |
| 1:25.0 | So let's dive in with Ian Bremer with the top risk of 2020. |
| 1:28.0 | You had to rip up the script of your 2020 risk here and rewrite it on Friday and Saturday. Where does Iraq, |
| 1:34.8 | Iran, all of these tensions fit in to the global risks of this year? |
| 1:39.6 | Well we had to include it certainly, but let's be clear when you look at the big trends out |
| 1:43.9 | there 20-20 is a tipping point and that's true because an economy that's been |
| 1:48.9 | growing robustly after 2008 financial crisis is now starting to get softer. |
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