Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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You could try playing out the four-dimensional chess game of how the global order will shift in the next 10-15 years for yourself, or you could hire Velina Tchakarova. Founder of the consultancy FACE, Velina is a geopolitical strategist guiding businesses and organizations to anticipate the outcomes of global conflicts, shifting alliances, and bleeding edge technologies on the world stage.

In a globe-trotting conversation, Tyler and Velina start in the Balkans and then head to Russia, China, North Korea, and finally circle back to Putin’s interest in the Baltics. She gives her take on whether the Balkan Wars still matter today, the future of Bulgarian nationalism, what predicts which Eastern European countries will remain closer to Russia, why China will not attack Taiwan, Putin’s next move after Ukraine, where a nuclear weapon is most likely to be used next, how she sources intel, her unique approach to scenario-planning, and more.

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Recorded May 20th, 2024.

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1:00.0	visit Conversations with Tyler.com. Thanks. with Tyler. Today I'm very happy to be chatting with Veline Chakarova, who is a geopolitical
1:16.5	strategist with long-standing experience. She is founder of her group, Face, which stands for For A Conscious Experience, I first learned
1:26.2	to Valina by reading her on Twitter.
1:28.9	Valina, welcome.
1:31.4	Thank you.
1:32.4	Thank you very much for being with you and I look forward to a highly interesting conversation.
1:38.0	Now you're from Bulgaria, so I've long wondered.
1:41.0	The first and second Balkan Wars that preceded World War I, do they still
1:45.6	matter today or what did we learn from them?
1:48.1	Well, of course they matter in a sense because you are probably familiar with the term Balkanization and unfortunately the term
1:55.6	Balkanization that means splitting a country into smaller parts in order for external powers to interfere, to play, you know, different political actors off against each other, and that kind of things is still very much relevant and it's being used and applied to other regions to other parts of the world.
2:17.0	It matters also in terms of sentiments and in terms of, you know, if you like, moods, if you take a look at the political landscape in most of the
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