Multinationals Aren't Ready for the US-China Clash

A disordered world tests multinational corporations as well as diplomats. Amid trade wars and real wars, great-power struggles and vicious crises, geopolitical and geoeconomic disruptions are mounting. The global risk map has become more crowded, more complex.

Over the past year, I’ve traveled to places including Singapore and Seoul, Tokyo and Delhi, London and Copenhagen, to speak with private-sector audiences. I’ve argued, in these settings, that the global landscape is characterized by eight key features that multinationals will have to navigate. Geopolitics must become a core competency in the C-suite, no less than the White House Situation Room.