A new forecast for 2025 being prepared by the US National Intelligence Council projects that American dominance will be “much diminished,” and that the one key area of continued American superiority – military power – will be less significant in the competitive world of the future. This is not so much a question of American decline as “the rise of the rest.”
更大的问题影响着将来很长时期内的美国实力。美国国家情报委员会的一份新的对2025年的预测推断，美国的优势将会被极大的削弱，而且，美国持续具有优势的一个关键领域——军事实力——在将来的竞争社会中不如现在这么重要。这并不完全是一个“其他国家崛起”，美国衰落的问题。