The CIA views India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and North Korea as countries that will continue to pursue regional agendas that 'collide with US interests', Chairman of the US National Intelligence Council has said. Speaking at the Council of World Affairs, Gannon highlighted areas of continued concern to the United States during next 15 years.
He said regional powers like India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and Iraq are engaged in developing weapons of mass destruction. He said that all these regional powers were developing weapons of mass destruction and long or medium range ballistic missiles in order to achieve their national objectives within their regions. These objectives may also run counter with US strategic interests.
Gannon warned that ethnic and indigenous groups, now numbering more than 2,000 worldwide, were mobilising for their respective causes and by 2015, at least a few new ethnic-based nation-states "are likely to come into being." Asserting that global economic influence and power was likely to spread from the G-7 countries to a more multipolar global economic system in which India, Brazil, China and South Korea will be increasingly important players, he said output from developing countries was expected to rise from 45 per cent to around 60 per cent of global GDP by 2015.
He said in the new world order, power relationships and alignments were also likely to shift as European Union, Japan, Russia and China try actively to shape the world. Gannan said the most dangerous consequence of a return to multipolarity would be the risk of the reemergence of national rivalries within East Asia, and even within Europe.
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AMERICA SEEMS TO BE GETTING VERY DESPERATE AND PARANOID ABOUT ITS EVENTUAL LOSS OF GREAT POWER STATUS.. All of us are threats to American National interests! All of us are headed towards disintegration (into smaller ethnic states...) and ALL US SHOULD ACCEPT AMERICA'S DOMINANCE IF WE ARE TO SAVE OURSELVES!!!
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He said regional powers like India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and Iraq are engaged in developing weapons of mass destruction. He said that all these regional powers were developing weapons of mass destruction and long or medium range ballistic missiles in order to achieve their national objectives within their regions. These objectives may also run counter with US strategic interests.
Gannon warned that ethnic and indigenous groups, now numbering more than 2,000 worldwide, were mobilising for their respective causes and by 2015, at least a few new ethnic-based nation-states "are likely to come into being." Asserting that global economic influence and power was likely to spread from the G-7 countries to a more multipolar global economic system in which India, Brazil, China and South Korea will be increasingly important players, he said output from developing countries was expected to rise from 45 per cent to around 60 per cent of global GDP by 2015.
He said in the new world order, power relationships and alignments were also likely to shift as European Union, Japan, Russia and China try actively to shape the world. Gannan said the most dangerous consequence of a return to multipolarity would be the risk of the reemergence of national rivalries within East Asia, and even within Europe.
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AMERICA SEEMS TO BE GETTING VERY DESPERATE AND PARANOID ABOUT ITS EVENTUAL LOSS OF GREAT POWER STATUS.. All of us are threats to American National interests! All of us are headed towards disintegration (into smaller ethnic states...) and ALL US SHOULD ACCEPT AMERICA'S DOMINANCE IF WE ARE TO SAVE OURSELVES!!!
[This message has been edited by kmailik (edited May 08, 2000).]
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