Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines deemed the Chinese Communist Party the "most consequential threat to U.S. national security" during her opening statement before the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday in unveiling the intelligence community’s annual assessment.
"In brief, the CCP represents both the leading and most consequential threat to U.S. national security and leadership globally," Haines said Tuesday. "Its intelligence, specific ambitions and capabilities make it for us our most serious and consequential intelligence rival."
Chinese President Xi Jinping, recently elected to a third, five-year term, gave a speech this week which Haines categorized as "the most public and direct criticism that we've seen from him to date, and probably reflects growing pessimism in Beijing about China's relationship with the United States, as well as Xi's growing worries about the trajectory of China's domestic economic development and indigenous technology innovation challenges that he now blames on the United States."
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Update: U.S. Intelligence Community Says China Most 'Consequential' Threat To National Security (Huffington Post)
WNU Editor: There was some contradiction in today's media coverage on the House of Representatives hearings on China. Bloomberg is reporting this .... China doesn’t want a war over Taiwan, US spy chief Avril Haines says (Bloomberg), but other outlets are saying something else .... China ‘utterly committed to unification’ with Taiwan, top US intelligence official says (Washington Examiner).
Update #2: Any bets that this intel is going to be leaked? .... Spy chief commits to sharing classified assessment on Wuhan lab leak with Congress (Washington Examiner).
Update #3: Chinese media has already responded to Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines' remars on China .... US intelligence report risks pushing ties to the edge of a cold war mode (Global Times).
3 comments:
Comrade Xi is the new enlightened helmsman.
All glory to the heroes of the CCP.
China doesn’t want a war over Taiwan, US spy chief Avril Haines says (Bloomberg),
The re is no contradiction. China wants Taiwan. if they can bully Taiwan and the world into a take over and not have to use military force, they would prefer to go that way.
It is how Hitler mostly got Czechoslovakia.
China is continuously weighing their options and is agnostic in using force or using bullying. What matters is chance of success, cost benefit and correlation of forces. Words by the Chinese foreign ministry or the US state department are meaning less at best or head fakes at worst.
But Blinken, Kerry and others think they are players. Paying the journalist and American public but that is all.
China is the number 1 threat, so let's have war with Russia..... Keep ducking
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