Establishment of the Red Cell

After the September 11 attacks, the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence created a red cell, an elite group of analysts tasked with thinking outside the box to address various issues. One of those issues was the challenge of China's rapid modernization. The red cell project on China was recently imagined by two former senior CIA officers, who constructed a futuristic scenario set in 2041, envisioning China as the preeminent global power. The fictional red cell's task was to explain how China achieved this status.