Top 10 Risks
In January every year, Eurasia Group releases the Top 10 Risks for the coming year, along with notable red herrings (issues of general concern not deemed a substantial risk by Eurasia Group). Eurasia Group keeps the Top 10 Risks posted on their website for the remainder of the year.
In January 2010, Eurasia Group listed the deterioration in US-China relations as their top risk. The Chinese Foreign Ministry took up the report, responding by saying "China-US relations will face challenges in terms of Taiwan and Tibet issues, in addition to the two countries' economic and trade relations."
In January 2011, Eurasia Group's top risk was the G-Zero world, where "the world's major powers set aside aspirations for global leadership—alone, coordinated, or otherwise—and look primarily inward for their policy priorities. Key institutions that provide global governance become arenas not for collaboration but for confrontation." In a G-Zero world, "The U.S. lacks the resources to continue as primary provider of public goods, and rising powers are too preoccupied with problems at home to welcome the burdens that come with international leadership."
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