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Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group and author of "Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World." He is on Twitter as @ianbremmer and Facebook as Ian Bremmer.

Biden vs. Trump II is likely America's unhappy fate

No other Republican comes close in drawing support despite legal troubles

The world is forced to guess Iran's intentions

Tehran may be just playing for time with conciliatory moves

Russia will prove more formidable spoiler than Iran

With asymmetric warfare, Putin is seeking to weaken NATO unity

'Maximum Xi Jinping' will be costly for China and its people

Lack of constraints will be felt in economy, public health and foreign policy

The risk that Russia will go nuclear in Ukraine is real

Still unclear what might trigger move by Vladimir Putin

Fallout from Pelosi's Taiwan visit has only just begun

Xi Jinping is likely to set new redlines that U.S. will be tempted to test

American democracy is now under siege from within

Exacerbating political divisions set off alarms of conflicts to come

Strategically, Russia has already lost the war in Ukraine

Self-inflicted damage is irreversible as long as Putin remains in charge

China's tech prowess will limit damage of economic vulnerabilities

A larger database enables quicker technological advancement

China could accept more infections to lessen economic damage

Economic fallout and political turmoil do not care much about borders

Russia's war on Ukraine will create a new kind of Cold War

New diplomatic infrastructure will take years to build

Expect the world's ungoverned places to export instability

Outside actors prove increasingly reluctant to intervene

Conflict between Big Tech and governments invites technopolar world

Digital space will be even more poorly governed

Russia's invading Ukraine will provoke a forcible response

Muscle flexing aside, Vladimir Putin is highly unlikely to launch a war

We must limit Facebook's ability to damage democracy

Information technology is changing the world much faster than global warming

U.S. needs to reverse J-curve slump

America has become both less open and less resilient in recent years

Afghanistan collapse a failure of execution, not strategy

US troop withdrawal was the best of truly bad options

Pegasus spyware threatens to chip away our freedoms

Tech companies are already playing a larger and more destabilizing role

Biden is tougher on China and nicer to Russia than Trump

White House will focus on increasingly contentious relationship with Beijing

The right way to confront China

Biden administration should show world why it is better to partner with US