The phrase 'geopolitical confrontation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a conflict between two or more countries or regions that involves political and/or economic issues. For example: The 2020 presidential election in the US has sparked increased geopolitical confrontation between the US and China.
Iulian Chifu, an advisor to the Romanian president, fears (link in Romanian) that Mr Rogozin's appointment signals geopolitical confrontation rather than economic cooperation.
New tariffs could also prompt the United States' biggest trading partners to push back and ignite a trade war or a serious geopolitical confrontation.
But now a new sort of geopolitical confrontation stalks the region, one that sets America against Iran, and the Islamist movements Iran supports against the Arab regimes in America's camp.
Few, at the time, could have predicted what would unfold: the first redrawing of borders in Europe through use of force since the second world war (annexation of Crimea), and a pattern of geopolitical confrontation that some have dubbed cold war 2.0.
In his pathetically shallow worldview, a geopolitical confrontation between military adversaries is the equivalent of negotiating a hotel sale.
The first use of the term to describe the specific post war geopolitical confrontation between the USSR and the United States came in a speech by Bernard Baruch, an influential advisor to Democratic presidents, on 16 April 1947.
This far-flung, almost forgotten conflict matters so much because Armenia and Azerbaijan stand at a crossroads of geopolitical confrontations.
I am hardly the only stick-in-the-mud to observe that the impending takeover of Crimea, a precise piece of geopolitical logistics and confrontation with a full menu of international implications – journalistic red meat – has been blown away by a story with no evident meaning, other than the likely bleak fate of most onboard.
One is some sort of a geopolitical event, a confrontation with Iran, the Somali pirates.
The only cloud on his horizon is geopolitical: the Philippines' increasingly acrimonious confrontations with China and Taiwan over disputed territories and waters in the South China Sea.
And as I have said on Forbes before, Syria will not raise the geopolitical risk premium further, barring an unlikely direct confrontation between the U.S. and Russia.
