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Although the new year has begun, the COVID-19 pandemic remains, along with the global crisis it has created. And according to a report released this week by the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy based in New York City, the backdrop of 2021 is set with the United States being the “most powerful, politically divided, and economically unequal of the world’s industrial democracies,” while China is “America’s strongest competitor, a state capitalist, authoritarian, and techno-surveillance regime.”
While the world remains in the “worst crisis it has experienced in generations,” the report notes that nations would ordinarily look to the U.S. for leadership, but “when the most powerful country is so divided, everybody has a problem.” With the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating global issues ranging from health care to cybersecurity, the new year will witness risks felt throughout the world.
Here are the 10 greatest risks in 2021, according to the Eurasia Group: