US ‘reluctant to let go hegemony’ in intelligence assessment
Global TimesMar 12
US Intel Report Warns of 'Fragile World Order'
The Facts
The US intelligence community's Annual Threat Assessment has warned that the country faces an "increasingly fragile world order" amid accelerating great power competition, transnational challenges, and regional conflicts.
According to the unclassified report, Beijing threatens Washington in multiple domains, including technology, weapons of mass destruction, space, and malign influence operations.
The Spin
Establishment-critical narrative
America has once again shown reluctance to accept that its hegemony has come to an end. This so-called intelligence report, which is merely a political stunt and a piece of disinformation, reveals that its leaders can't dissociate the international order from their own declining country. Instead of pointing fingers at other countries, the US should focus on its own problems.
Pro-establishment narrative
China and its axis of authoritarian allies and rogue states — including Iran, North Korea, and Russia — have joined efforts to undermine the rules-based world order, capturing international institutions as the West remains distracted by its divisions. Now, it's time for liberal democracies to take action to address this epoch-defining challenge before it's too late.
Nerd narrative
There's a 50% chance that the next "Great Power" war will occur by 2038, according to the Metaculus prediction community.