USA - Administration report surrenders future to the Far East

End of the American superpower

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The Washington Times

Until we change course, the future belongs to China.

• It took more than 60 years, but the days of America as a superpower are coming to an end. 
• This is the finding of the Obama administration’s latest report, “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds,” which the National Intelligence Council (NIC) released Monday. 
• Analyzing geopolitical trends over the next 15 to 20 years, the document concludes China will have eclipsed the United States as the world’s premier economic and military giant by 2030. 
• The administration is convinced the United States and the West are in permanent decline.
• It doesn’t have to be so. 
• The NIC analysts predict a “return to pre-2008 growth rates” is highly unlikely for America and the European Union — at least for another decade, as the West’s anemic economies are being dragged down by massive budget deficits and crushing debt. 
• These are problems that could be resolved but for the resistance to spending restraint in Washington and Brussels.

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