2025: What to Expect (Mail & Guardian, SOUTH AFRICA)

No more them and us, with a farewell to American supremacy -- China to be biggest beneficiary of change, with wealth moving from West to East and nations competing for scarce resources, writes Julian Borger

The view of the world presented by the United States's leading intelligence organisation, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), lacks the black and white, us and them, good and evil clarity of the Bush years. It is a place of competing centres of power, scarce resources and countless potential shocks to the system.

Most importantly, in a conclusion likely to be contested by Washington's remaining neo-conservatives, the NIC report declares the end of American supremacy.

'A less dominant power'

"By 2025 the international system will be a global multipolar one with gaps in national power continuing to narrow between developed and developing countries," says the NIC report, entitled A Transformed World.

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