Robert Kaplan: A U.S.-China War Would Be an Extinction-Level Event for Financial Markets

Published on June 10, 2026

Speaking at Wealth Management EDGE, the geopolitics expert warned that the global financial system won’t absorb the shock from such a war as easily as it has other conflicts.

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