"flashpoints" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to “points of potential danger or conflict, especially in a political or social context.” For example, "The decision to raise taxes on luxury goods has been one of the primary flashpoints in the current economic crisis."
Major flashpoints in our changing climate are gradually forcing political leaders to prepare their populations for a radically different global environment.
Pyne said many of the current political flashpoints would be gone over the next couple of years.
There were a few such flashpoints in this match.
Rubio offered a similar prescription for flashpoints in Ukraine, the Gulf and the Pacific, describing a need for gestures that would demonstrate a US willingness to defend its interests with military might.
There will be a concerted effort to resolve various flashpoints before July, but Bowen predicted there would be a debate about Palestine at the national conference.
It was not entirely clear from his remarks whether one of the flashpoints he was consigning to the past tense was his higher education package, rejected by the Senate.
The incident was one of a number of flashpoints involving skirmishes between police and protesters among a couple of thousand who took part in a demonstration in the Trafalgar square area against government austerity measures set out in the Queen's speech.
But France has plenty of other banlieues that could become flashpoints next time round and for reasons that reach far beyond Islam.
But it is a reminder that the Taiwan Strait is one of Asia's flashpoints.
These are the holiest shrines of Tibetan Buddhism in Lhasa, and flashpoints for its periodic outbreaks of anti-government protest and racial violence.
The potential flashpoints for a clash with a resurgent Russia are all too obvious.Ukraine's splintered politics adds to its troubles.
