[INTERVIEW] Rio Tinto chairman stresses strategic flexibility for Korea to navigate geopolitical tension

Amid the upheaval in the global economy, Korea faces an evolving set of challenges from shifting economic orders, disruptive artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and intensifying geopolitical competition. In the middle of this rough sailing, Dominic Barton, the Canadian chairman of leading multinational mining company Rio Tinto, shared his insights on how Korea can navigate these headwinds and embrace opportunities for sustainable growth, emphasizing its unique position at the crossroads of geopolitical and technological disruption. Barton, a Ugandan-born business executive who previously served as McKinsey & Company’s global managing partner and Canada’s ambassador to China, defined the current era as being marked by heightened geopolitical risk, with the global economic center of gravity having moved decisively towards Asia over the past decades. “We're in a very different place now where there's more geopolitical tension, but there's also a rise in a nationalistic industrial policy because of populism … So that's a shift companies have to adjust to,” he said during an inWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times