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Intelligence study predicts transformed world by 2030

Agencies see US 2d to China as economic power

WASHINGTON — A new intelligence assessment of global trends projects that China will outstrip the United States as the leading economic power before 2030, but that America will remain an indispensable world leader, bolstered in part by an era of energy independence.

Russia’s clout will wane, as will the economic strength of other countries reliant on oil for revenues, the assessment says.

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Limit foreign investment in business to no more than 49%.

At least it will place a limit on how much of our nation can be owned by foreign nationals.