Inflection Points

Inflection Points

A weekly column by Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe, Inflection Points focuses on the global challenges facing the United States and how to best address them.

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May 19, 2019

Trump as Juggler-in-Chief

By Frederick Kempe

The Trump administration is engaged in a global juggling act involving so many strategically significant balls that it would confound the capabilities of the most skilled circus performer.

United States and Canada

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May 12, 2019

Ending US-China illusions

By Frederick Kempe

Near dead is the notion that both sides would inevitably compromise because they so badly need an agreement for their own political and economic purposes. 

China Trade and tariffs

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May 5, 2019

Terrorism’s lethal turn

By Frederick Kempe

What’s growing clearer with each day is that the United States and its allies will likely have to contend with extremist, Islamist terrorism for perhaps decades to come.  

South Asia Terrorism

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Apr 28, 2019

China’s global power play

By Frederick Kempe

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ambition by now is clear: to reclaim his country’s global greatness and establish itself over time as the pre-eminent economic and political power, not only in Asia but across the world stage.

China

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Apr 14, 2019

The world China wants

By Frederick Kempe

Some are in denial about the fundamental change China’s rise may bring to the global order of institutions and principles established by the United States and its allies after World War II.

China European Union

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Apr 7, 2019

Russia’s Venezuela challenge

By Frederick Kempe

What concerns US officials is that Vladimir Putin may be laying the ground for making Venezuela the defining foreign policy debacle for President Trump.

NATO Russia

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Mar 24, 2019

Special edition: Reverse Brexit, save Britain!

By Frederick Kempe

There are compelling reasons for parliament to intervene and push for a Brexit re-examination.

United Kingdom

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Mar 16, 2019

Europe’s struggle for a China strategy

By Frederick Kempe

The EU has taken its most significant steps yet – though belated and insufficient – to address China’s increasingly assertive and state-subsidized push into Europe.

China European Union

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Mar 9, 2019

Dear Europe: Renaissance or unraveling?

By Frederick Kempe

Across Europe, Macron has been unable to personally integrate other pro-EU forces and sometimes appears aloof from what other Europeans think.

European Union France

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Mar 3, 2019

Nuclear threats and opportunity

By Frederick Kempe

It's time for India and Pakistan's international partners to insist they engage urgently in talks to better manage their relationship.

India Nuclear Deterrence
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