China has the ability to hit the United States with conventional weapons; compromise U.S. infrastructure through cyber attacks; and target its assets in space, the Annual Threat Assessment by the intelligence community said, adding that Beijing also seeks to displace the United States as the top AI power by 2030.
Released ahead of testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee by President Donald Trump's intelligence chiefs, the report said China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) most likely planned to use large language models to create fake news, imitate personas, and enable attack networks.
“China almost certainly has a multifaceted, national-level strategy designed to displace the United States as the world’s most influential AI power by 2030,“ the report said.
Trump has increased tariffs on all Chinese imports by 20% to punish Beijing for what Trump called its failure to halt shipments of fentanyl chemicals. China has denied playing a role in the crisis, the leading cause of U.S. drug overdose deaths. The issue has become a major point of friction between the Trump administration and Chinese officials.
The Chinese foreign ministry said it “advised the U.S. not to use its own hegemonic logic to mirror China, and not to use outdated Cold War thinking to view China-U.S. relations,“ when asked about the report on Wednesday.
The spokesperson for China’s embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said the United States has long “hyped up” the China threat as an excuse to maintain U.S. military hegemony.
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Numerous Republican senators focused their questioning on undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
The intelligence agencies said Iran was committed to developing surrogate networks inside the U.S. and to targeting former and current U.S. officials.
U.S. concerns about China dominated about a third of the 33-page report, which said Beijing was set to increase military and economic coercion toward Taiwan, the democratically governed island China claims as its territory.
The intelligence agencies said another one of China’s long-term goals was to expand access to Greenland’s natural resources and use it as a “key strategic foothold” in the Arctic.
with renewed calls for the U.S. to take over the semi-autonomous Danish territory, calling the proposal a U.S. national security imperative.
China's economic growth probably will continue to slow because of low consumer and investor confidence, and Chinese officials appear to be bracing for more economic friction with the U.S., the report said.
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