Escalating economic confrontation between major powers is now seen as biggest threat to global stability for the year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said on Wednesday in its Global Risks Report 2026.
Geoeconomic confrontation — which refers to the use of tools such as sanctions and tariffs — ranked above misinformation and disinformation, societal polarisation, extreme weather and state-based armed conflict as the top global risk for 2026.
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