China remains the main military and cybernetic threat of the United States, according to a report by US intelligence agencies published on Tuesday that said Beijing was making “constant but unequal” progress in the capabilities he could use to capture Taiwan.
China has the ability to hit the US. With conventional weapons, compromise the infrastructure of the United States through cyber attacks and aim at their assets in space, in addition to seeking to displace the United States as the power of AI by 2030, the Annual Evaluation of Threats For the intelligence community he said.
Russia, together with Iran, North Korea and China, seeks to challenge the US. Through deliberate campaigns to obtain an advantage, with the Moscow war in Ukraine, since it has granted a “large number of lessons with respect to the fight against Western weapons and intelligence in a large -scale war,” according to the report.
Published before the testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee by the intelligence leaders of President Donald Trump, the report said that the China Popular Liberation Army (PLA) probably planned to use large language models to create false news, imitate people and allow attack networks.
“The Chinese army is presenting advanced capabilities, which include hypersonic weapons, stealthy airplanes, advanced submarines, strongest assets of cybernetic space and war and a larger arsenal of nuclear weapons,” said national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard to the committee, labeling Beijing as the “most capable strategic competitor” of Washington. “
“China is almost certain that it has a national multifaceted strategy designed to displace the United States as the most influential power of the world by 2030,” the report said.
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, told the Committee that China had only made “intermittent” efforts to reduce the flow of precursor chemicals that feed the United States fentanyl crisis due to its reluctance to take energetic measures against lucrative Chinese companies.
Trump has increased tariffs on all Chinese imports by 20 percent to punish Beijing for what he says it is not to stop sending chemicals of fentanyl. China denies that it plays a role in the crisis, which is the main cause of deaths due to American drugs, but the problem has become an important friction point between the Trump administration and Chinese officials.
“There is nothing that prevents China … to take energetic measures against fentanyl precursors,” Ratcliffe said.
The China Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a comment request.
The committee hearing was eclipsed by Democratic senators, roasting Ratcliffe and Gabbard for revelations that they and other Trum to Trump officials discussed highly sensitive military plans in a group of signal messages applications that accidentally included an American journalist.
Numerous Republican senators focused their questioning on undocumented immigrants in the United States. The intelligence report says that large -scale illegal immigration had tension the infrastructure of the United States and “enabled or suspect terrorists crossed the United States.”
But the United States’ concerns about China dominated around a third of the 32 -page report, which said Beijing should increase military and economic coercion towards Taiwan, China island’s statements governed democratically as their territory.
“The PL is probably advancing but unequal of progress in the abilities that it would use in an attempt to seize taiwan and deter, and if necessary, defeat, US military intervention,” he said.
Even so, he said, China faces “discouraging” domestic challenges, which include corruption, demographic imbalances and winds against prosecutors and economic that could affect the legitimacy of the Communist Party at home.
China’s economic growth will probably continue to decrease due to the low confidence of consumers and investors, and Chinese officials seem to be prepared for greater economic friction with the United States, according to the report.
