"In a single chart, why the US will be #1 where it matters in 2030"
From Quartz:
  
  
  
   Hard and soft power National Intelligence Council
   
 
 
 
The year 2030 will be a time of diffused power—China will have the 
largest economy, but multiple actors operating individually, in 
coalitions and networks will exert much countervailing influence. 
According to Global Trends 2030,
 the latest quadrennial consensus of US intelligence agencies, this 
shift largely reverses the historic rise of the West over the last 250 
years....MORE