New York Daily News – 12/10/2012
Asia will have surpassed North America and Europe combined in terms of global power by 2030 with China, India and Brazil becoming especially important to the global economy, according to a new US intelligence assessment.
“The diffusion of power among countries will have a dramatic impact by 2030,” says the fifth instalment in the US National Intelligence Council’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future released here Monday.
The report “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds,” released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the apex body of 16 US intelligence agencies, says China alone will probably have the largest economy, surpassing that of the United States a few years before 2030.
