  There is a growing body of evidence that the running of $\alpha_s$ predicted
by perturbation (PT) theory is not correctly describing the accelerator
experiments at the highest energies. A natural explanation is provided by the
authors' 1992 proposal that in fact the true running predicted by the
nonperturbatively defined lattice QCD is different, leading to an ultraviolet
fixed point near $\alpha_s=.1$. It is explained how this can be understood from
the fact that the conventional perturbative method is ambiguous and does not
provide the correct asymptotic expansion. It is pointed out that there is a
large amount of lattice data that are supporting this scenario rather than the
conventional one.
