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Washington Nov 7
With new players like India and Brazil taking a seat at the table of global influence, the international system that emerged at the end of World War-II is being transformed, according to the top US intelligence official.
"We have some new players - Brazil and India - that now have a seat at the table of global influence," Director of National Intelligence Dennis C Blair, who serves as the head of 16 top US intelligence agencies, said Friday.
"The roles of Russia and China have also changed considerably. And there are new stakes and new rules for everybody," he said speaking at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Blair recalled that the National Intelligence Council (NIC) had last year, in a set of long-range projections entitled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World", projected that "the international system that we've known since the end of World War II is being transformed".
A year later, Blair said: "The G-8 has decidedly become the G-20. You notice who just got the 2016 Summer Olympics? Rio de Janeiro. And which movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in February? 'Slumdog Millionaire', a film about transcending poverty in Mumbai."
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