Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe penned an op-ed for The Wall Stree Journal that was published on Thursday titled, “China Is National Security Threat No. 1.”
Ratcliffe writes: “Beijing intends to dominate the US and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.” The spy chief goes on to list reasons why Beijing is such a threat, mostly examples of alleged theft of intellectual property.
Ratcliffe writes that China is preparing for an “open-ended period of confrontation” with the US and that Washington should do the same. He made similar comments in an interview with Fox News on Thursday and urged the incoming administration to keep the focus on China, not Russia.
“People that equate other things, or say, oh, you know, Russia is a greater threat, they are politicizing intelligence,” he said. “I am hoping now that the election is over, now that people have voted, and if there is a Biden administration, that they will get past politicizing intelligence and be honest about China and acknowledge that China, and China alone is the greatest national security threat that we face.”
In an interview in October, Joe Biden identified Russia as the greatest security threat and said China was Washington’s top competitor. But Biden is expected to continue some of the Trump administration’s hardline policies against Beijing. Biden said this week that he would not “immediately” lift tariffs on Chinese goods.
A Biden administration is also expected to continue escalations in the South China Sea, where the US sails warships and flies military aircraft to challenge China’s claims. The policy started under the Obama administration, and Biden bragged about flying B-52 bombers to the region during the final presidential debate.
USA must convince the peasants that they have enemies; this reflects inherent amerikan racism , insecurities, paranoia
America is the new Don Quixote with Americans seeing threats even under their beds.
America has become a pathetic and unfunny joke. On the bright side, it will become part of history’s garbage as the rest of the world moves on.
Heres an idea,why dont we try to work together instead of acting as gangs on a neighborhood city street?
Theres no profit in being friends .
Ratcliffe realized like the paranoid fireman who is out setting fires, that without a fire to fight he becomes obsolete. China had to modernize or forever be dominated and humbled by the west, we are the threat not China. We better come to our senses before we become like rats on a sinking ship with no place to go but down under.
IMO any confrotation with China will result in the defeat of America / NATO because there is no way the US can take on China without it`s vassals who if they have any sense at all will tell the US NO WAY PILGRIM
Especially after China “stole” the Artificial Sun technology and the Quantum Computing with a chip billion times faster than Google’s.